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Saturn
By
Olivia Modi & Sebastian Santos
• Saturn has been known since prehistoric times. • Saturn was first visited by NASA's Pioneer 11 in
1979 and later by Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Cassini (a joint NASA / ESA project) arrived on July 1, 2004 and will orbit Saturn for at least four years
.
Saturn’s Informason
Planet Facts• Saturn is the 6th planet to the sun.
Distance from the sun Average distance from Sun 9.537 AU (1,426,725,400 km)
Movement from orbit-time needed to revolve around the sun distense from the sun Time needed to rotate on axisMoons -34Earth's, because Saturn is so far from the sun. The temperature at the top of Saturn's clouds
averages -285 degrees F (-175 degrees C). Titan, has a diameter of about 3,200 miles (5,150 kilometers) -- larger than the planets Mercury and
Pluto. Titan is one of the few satellites in the solar system known to have an atmosphere. Its atmosphere consists largely of nitrogen.
Diameter (km) 120660 Average distance from Sun 9.537 AU (1,426,725,400 km) Mass (kg) 5.69 x 1026Rings are 270,000 km in diameter,
but only a few hundred meters thick. Orbit eccentricity (deviation from circular) 0.056
Description
• Size• Shape• Color• Special markings• The origin of the rings of Saturn (and the other
jovian planets) is unknown.• They range in size from a centimeter or so to
several meters» Two prominent rings (A and B) and one faint ring (C) can
be seen from the Earth.
Resorses
• http://www.nineplanets.org/saturn.html
• http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/saturn_worldbook.html
• http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/special/planets.htm
Planet Facts• Surface conditions
• Climate
• Weather
• Temperature (highs/lows)
• atmosphere
Saturn is the least dense of the planets; its specific gravity (0.7) is less than that of water.
• Like Jupiter, Saturn is about 75% hydrogen and 25% helium with traces of water, methane, ammonia and "rock", similar to the composition of the primordial Solar Nebula from which the solar system was formed. But this may not be sufficient to explain Saturn's luminosity; some additional mechanism may be at work, perhaps the "raining out" of helium deep in Saturn's interior.
The name “Saturn”
• In Roman mythology, Saturn is the god of agriculture. The associated Greek god, Cronus, was the son of Uranus and Gaia and the father of Zeus (Jupiter). Saturn is the root of the English word "Saturday"