Saturn got its name by a roman god of time and could be a reason why it is the slowest planet to orbit the sun. Saturn is the 6th planet from the sun between Jupiter and Uranus. Saturn is the second largest planet. Saturn revolves around the sun once every 29.4 Earth years, or 10,755.7 Earth days. Its poles are tilted 29 degrees relative to the orbit around the sun.
Winds closer to Saturn’s equator blow east at 1,100 miles per hour, making Saturn the windiest planet in the solar system (of known planets). Temperatures at Saturn’s cloud tops are -218 F. Its volume is 764 times of earth, but only 95 times more massive. It has rings around the planet made of rocks, ice, and debree.
Saturn’s atmosphere is mostly composed to about 94% hydrogen and 6% helium. Clouds are composed to very little of other elements. …show more content…
Saturn has a strong magnetic field (not as strong as Jupiter’s, but still very strong). Saturn has 62 known moons and the largest of all has the name of Titan, Titan is bigger than the planet Pluto and Mercury.
Only a few missions have visited Saturn: Pioneer 11, Voyager 1 and 2 and Cassini Huygens. In 1610 an Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was the first human to gaze at Saturn through a telescope. To his surprise he sought to bodies at both sides of the planet, and sketched them as two separate spheres thinking Saturn was triple bodied. In 1659 ditch astronomer Cristian Huygens, using a more powerful telescope than Galileo’s, found out that Saturn wasn’t triple bodied but that it was surrounded by a thin flat ring around the whole planet.
In 1675, Italian-born astronomer Jean-Dominique Cassini discovered a "division" between what are now called the A and B rings. It is now known that the gravitational influence of Saturn's moon Mimas is responsible for the Cassini Division, which is 4,800 kilometers (3,000 miles)
Winds closer to Saturn’s equator blow east at 1,100 miles per hour, making Saturn the windiest planet in the solar system (of known planets). Temperatures at Saturn’s cloud tops are -218 F. Its volume is 764 times of earth, but only 95 times more massive. It has rings around the planet made of rocks, ice, and debree.
Saturn’s atmosphere is mostly composed to about 94% hydrogen and 6% helium. Clouds are composed to very little of other elements. …show more content…
Saturn has a strong magnetic field (not as strong as Jupiter’s, but still very strong). Saturn has 62 known moons and the largest of all has the name of Titan, Titan is bigger than the planet Pluto and Mercury.
Only a few missions have visited Saturn: Pioneer 11, Voyager 1 and 2 and Cassini Huygens. In 1610 an Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was the first human to gaze at Saturn through a telescope. To his surprise he sought to bodies at both sides of the planet, and sketched them as two separate spheres thinking Saturn was triple bodied. In 1659 ditch astronomer Cristian Huygens, using a more powerful telescope than Galileo’s, found out that Saturn wasn’t triple bodied but that it was surrounded by a thin flat ring around the whole planet.
In 1675, Italian-born astronomer Jean-Dominique Cassini discovered a "division" between what are now called the A and B rings. It is now known that the gravitational influence of Saturn's moon Mimas is responsible for the Cassini Division, which is 4,800 kilometers (3,000 miles)