Saturn: The Most Stressed Planet In The Solar System

Saturn has an average radius of nine times that of Earth, it is the second largest planet after Jupiter and sixth from the sun.

Saturn is one of the most well known and loved planets in the solar system known for its many features, including its incredible rings, beautiful color and much more. Saturn is a gas giant made up of mostly hydrogen and helium, similar to Jupiter another gas giant. Saturn is the sixth planet from our sun and the second largest planet in our solar system. It's the furthest planet from Earth that’s still visible to the unaided human eye. Saturn is an incredible and outstanding planet with a huge history and intricate details that make it such a spectacular and important part of our solar system.

Saturn is unique of all the planets, adorned with thousands of beautiful ringlets and has 63 moons with confirmed orbits. Fifty-three of the moons have been named, with Titan being the largest and the only one with an atmosphere. Saturn is mostly a massive ball of hydrogen and helium, much like the planet Jupiter.

Jove, Jowisz, the gas planet, the stormy planet, whatever you call it, these are all names for the biggest planet in our solar system, the fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter. The Romans named this planet after their god of the sky and thunder. This planet has 318 times as much mass as the earth, and its diameter is 11 times the earth’s diameter. Since this planet is the fastest spinning (rotates in less than 10 hours), it is flattened at the poles and it is bulged at its equator. One Jovian year (the time it takes to orbit the sun), take 11.9 earth years!

Our lab assignment this week was to research the Cassini/Huygens mission currently being conducted by NASA and the European Space Agency. After learning about the mission, we need to list some of the information it has provided us. As well as discuss what we have learned about Saturn, its rings and the moon system. Choose at least one picture and explain it. Although, Saturn has always been my favorite planet, I didn’t know much about this mission. The lab proved fun and interesting to learn about all the many discoveries of Saturn.

In the Solar System there is nine planets total counting Pluto and eight not counting pluto. Named after the Greek god of the underworld Pluto is the ninth of the nine planets from the sun. Pluto was discovered in February 18, 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh. Plutos the only orbit planet in the Solar System after it was classified as an orbit planet back in 2006. The planet has nine moons total Charon, Hydra, Nix, Kerberos, and Styx. Although Pluto is the largest Dwarf Planet it's smaller than most moon of the other planets. Alongside Pluto is the eighth planet from the sun otherwise known as Neptune. Due to its blue coloration Neptune was named after the Roman god of the Sea. While neptunes the third largest planet with respect to mass, according to diameter it's the fourth largest. Neptune has 14 moons and a very thin collection of rings that are made up of ice and dust

and is not fully understood. One of Saturn’s moon is Titan .Made up of a rock like core

“Just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean it isn’t there. It’s just waiting for the right time to show itsellf by- Emma Hart.” The atoms in our bodies and the environment around us came from a nuclear fusion, where heavier elements are made by fusing smaller atoms together.

Being a large planet, Uranus' mass is the equivalent of 15 Earths and has a radius of 51,118 Kilometers. Uranus also has 13 rings made up of a frozen waterline material and dust. The planet’s rings are darker than Saturn's rings and have larger rocks within them. They are about 38,000 Kilometers away from the planet's core. The rings are tilted as well.

Jupiter, being the fifth and largest planet from the sun, is huge. In fact, it is approximately a thousand times the size of our home planet. Alongside Neptune, Saturn and Uranus, it is a gas giant. hydrogen and helium are the main components. Jupiter's surface appears striped due to the color swirls. wind on the planet gets up twice as strong as a hurricane on earth.

Saturn: is the sixth planet from the sun and also the 2nd largest. Saturn is one of five planets able to be seen with the naked eye. It is also the fifth brightest object in the solar system.

Until the late 1700's, Uranus was often mistaken as just another ordinary star. Even though Uranus had been seen quite often by ancient astronomers through telescopes, it was not yet classified as a planet. Uranus was then discovered on March 13, 1781, by a persnickety individual by the name of Sir William Herschel. This was the first planet to be discovered after the prehistoric time.

Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system. Jupiter is the only planet that is larger. The gas giant is 72 thousand miles in diameter, almost ten times the size of Earth. In spite of its huge size, though, Saturn weighs very little. It is a very light gas planet. Saturn is the least dense planet in the solar system-- so light, in fact, that it would float in water. This planet is mostly composed of hydrogen and helium, like Jupiter, but it is much less dense. The combination of its light weight and fast rotation causes Saturn to spread out, or oblate, its center. Since Saturn is a gas planet, it does not have a solid surface. Spacecraft are unable to land on this type of surface. The clouds that are seen when looking at Saturn are just the top layer of a very deep layer that covers a center of liquid hydrogen. The clouds are blown by constant winds that reach speeds up to one thousand miles per hour at the equator of the planet (“Great Space Place”).

They are similarities. All have dates and facts. For example in “The Mysteries of Saturn” it states, “in July 2004 the Cassini spacecraft entered Saturn’s orbit and began to collect valuable information” In “Cassini Mission” it states, “in December 2004 a probe was dropped into Titan’s atmosphere. Then the leader began gathering data.” According to the illustration the first picture of Earth, Mars, Venus, and Saturn together was taken by the Cassini in 2013. All of this information was gathered using improved technology.

solar system. It is made up of nine planets which range in size and make-up. The nine major planets in our solar system are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. There are also many other minor planets which are also in