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Saturn. Gabriella Shook, Danielle Poindexter, and Will Foster. The Basics. Gas Giant Second largest planet in our solar system. Depending on the orbit patterns of Earth and Saturn, we see Saturn's rings at different angles. why?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Gabriella Shook, Danielle Poindexter, and Will Foster

Gabriella Shook, Danielle Poindexter, and Will Foster

Saturn

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The Basics..

Gas Giant

Second largest planet in our solar system.

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DEPENDING ON THE ORBIT PATTERNS OF EARTH AND

SATURN, WE SEE SATURN'S RINGS AT DIFFERENT ANGLES.

WHY?We see Saturn at different angles

because its axis is tilted 29 degrees

October

March

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Earth vs. Saturn Saturn

Diameter 9.4 times Earth’s

Average distance from sun

9.5 times Earth’s

Mass 95 times Earth’s

Density 0.13 times Earth’s

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9.539 AU from the sun

What is AU?

AU is short for astronomical unit. An astronomical unit is

the measure of distance between Earth and the Sun.

Saturn

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Saturn’s Year and Rotation

Saturn’s year is 29.46 Earth years

Saturn’s

rotation is

10.66 Earth hours

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Saturn’s Atmosphere

Most of the upper

atmosphere is made of

hydrogen and helium

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MOONSSaturn has several icy moons and asteroid-like

objects in orbit around it.

•Pan•Atlas

•Prometheus

•Epimetheus

• Janus•Mimas•Enceladu

s

•Tethys•Telesto•Calypso•Dione•Helene•Rhea•Titan

•Hyperion• Iapetus•Phoebe

Titan is the only moon

with an atmosphere

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Pioneer 11First

spacecraft to inspect

SaturnArrived at

Saturn on

September 1, 1979

Discoveries:Saturn has a strong magnetic field, 500

times the strength of Earth’s

Saturn radiates more internal heat than it

receives from the sunSaturn’s clouds are bland with little real

color variation

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RINGS

Made mostly of ice particles

and a small amount of rock

and dust

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Saturn’s Name

Named after the Roman god of the

harvest

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Quiz!

1.What is Saturn’s upper atmosphere mostly made of?

2.What is Saturn named after?3. What was the first spacecraft to inspect

Saturn?4.What is an astronomical unit?

5.Which of Saturn’s moons has an atmosphere?

Helium and HydrogenRoman god of the harvest

Pioneer 11

The measure of the distance between the

Earth and the Sun

Titan

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Works Cited

•http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/ceps/etp/saturn/satview.html•http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/ceps/etp/saturn/satpioneer.html•http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/ceps/etp/saturn/satatmos.html•http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/ceps/etp/saturn/satfacts.html