Saturn is the 6th planet away from the sun and is the second largest planet in the solar system with a diameter of 119,871 km (74,500 miles). Saturn’s volume is 764 times bigger than of Earth’s (so 764 Earths can be fit inside Saturn). It originated from the Greek god Cronus which was adopted by the Romans and later changed to Saturn. The surface color is yellowish-brown and is the most distant planet that’s visible to the naked eye from earth. It is known as one of the two ‘gas giants’, as it is of composed 96% hydrogen (gas), 3% helium (gas), and 1% various trace elements such as methane, ammonia, ethane, and hydrogen deuteride. It takes almost 28.5 years to complete one orbit, though it rotates in just over 10.5 hours. The range of temperatures
Saturn is the sixth planet in the galaxy but is not in fact the only planet with rings. Saturn is also the second largest planet after jupiter. It is also known as a gas giant due to the fact that it is predominately made up of hydrogen and helium which are numbers 1 and 2 on the periodic table. It is also the only planet in the solar system that is less dense than water. Saturn is so big that it and Jupiter make up 92% of the planetary mass in our solar system according to Jonathan J.Nettelmann who wrote Space Science Reviews on May 10 2010 so it is pretty recent.
The majority of people have a very basic understanding of Earth, the planet we reside in, let alone the seven other planets in our solar system. The eight planets surrounding our star, the Sun, are separated into two very simple categories: Jovian and Terrestrial Planets. Throughout this paper, I will be explaining the basic structure and properties of the eight planets in our solar system, along with a brief history on the discovery of our solar system and what’s to come in the future. I will also go in depth into the difference between the Jovian Planets and the Terrestrial Planets, from the basic differences to the different structures and properties.
Uranus is one of the Jovian planets and like the others it has a short rotation period. Uranus’s day is 17.2 hours. Its revolution around the sun however is slightly more than 84 years. It is the seventh planet from the sun at a distance of 1.78 billion miles.
I began my six-night observation of the moon on September 17th. Of the six days I observed the moon from my bedroom window at 9:30 P.M., I was only able to see the moon, a full moon, on the first day. While on the last day of observations, that being September 27th, I was again unable to see the moon at 9:30 P.M., I was able to see a low waning crescent at around 6:10 A.M from a different location. I concluded that my location of choice was not ideal despite it being my second attempt at observing the moon; my first attempt was set at 7:30 P.M. in the same location, which proved to be too early.
Mimas averages 246 miles in diameter and its shock waves from the Herschel impact may have caused the fractures that were created as a result on the opposite side of Mimas, which many scientists have researched. Mimas shape is not quite big enough to hold a round shape. Mimas is known to be the smallest known astronomical body that is thought to be rounded in shape due to the result of its self-gravitation. Mimas orbits at a range of 115,280 miles from Saturn in a time frame of 22 hours 37 minutes. Mimas’ orbit makes it the closest major moon of all moons of Saturn. Mimas is known to be tida...
Jupiter is a very interesting planet. It is very much different from our planet Earth. Its days are a lot shorter than and Earth day. Then the years though are very long. The giant, Jupiter, is named after and old Greek god. Jupiter actually has rings, though very little. It is one of my favorite planet’s.
Located in the sword of Orion, the Orion Nebula, also known as M42 or NGC 1976, lies in one of the most recognisable constellations in the night sky. It is a part of the larger Orion Nebula Cluster which at the age of roughly 3 million years old it lies a mere 1,344 lightyears away with a diameter of 14 lightyears [Scally, Clarke, Mccaughrean, 2005]. A nebula is a cloud of gas and dust [Oxford Dictionary, 2016] where either new stars are born or dead stars remain. The Orion Nebula is both an emission and reflection nebula, known as a diffuse nebula. An emission nebula is one in where there is a cloud of high temperature gas [Arnett, 1997]. A reflection nebula is one where the cloud of gas is illuminated by stars around it. The nebula has a
The ancient cultures like the Romans were the first to discover and name the planet Saturn but Galileo was the first to discover the rings in 1610 using his newly invented telescope. Bostiling a elegant ring system Saturn the sixth planet away from our sun at a distance of 1.4 billion kilometers. Saturn is second largest planet in the solar system and here on Earth is visible at night with the naked eye. Saturn has an overall hazy yellow-brown appearance from earth view but with a telescope people can see layers of cloud with little red, brown, and white spots.
Saturn's history had some different discoveries, some of them were true, and some of them were false. The first person to find out about Saturn rings is the same person who invented the telescope, Galileo. His telescope couldn’t see the rings well, and Galileo believed the rings to be two smaller planets hanging near a bigger planet (Saturn). At one point he referred to them as “Saturn’s ears”. Saturn is also called the “God of Agriculture”, because it was named after the Roman god, Saturn, who introduced agriculture to his people by teaching them how to farm the land. Saturn was also the Roman god of time and this is perhaps why the slowest (in orbit around the Sun) was named after him. Early observations of Saturn were complicated by
Earth has a magnetic field that is so strong that its forces reach thousands of kilometers from Earth’s surface to the magnetosphere. Because of the magnetosphere, life can exist on our planet. Saturn is famous for its rings, which can be seen from Earth with the naked eye. Also, Saturn has 62 moons, a few are large, but most of them are tiny. Uranus is the second furthest planet from the sun, so it’s the second coldest planet in our solar system. It is also the only planet to rotate on its side. Neptune has the fastest winds of any of the eight planets, which reach up to at least 2,100 kilometers per hour. The force of gravity on Neptune is almost the same as you feel walking on Earth. As you can see, each planet in our solar system has something different to offer and are full o...
The gas giants are a collection of planets in our solar system. As can be told from their name, they are mostly composed of differing mixtures of gases and ices. The gas and ice composition in question varies among the different planets. This mix of gases gives much of the planets an extremely thick atmosphere. At the very center of a gas giant is a core of liquid heavy metals. The gas giants are also called Jovian planets, taken from the largest planet in our solar system: Jupiter. Due to the fact the the majority of a gas giant planet is gas, the planet isn’t very dense and therefore, very large as a result. In fact, all of the gas giants are vastly larger than all of the terrestrial planets. Another common factor of the gas giants are their large amount of moons. The terrestrial planet, Mars, has the largest amount of moons, 2. The amount of moons of Mars is dwarfed in comparison to Saturn’s and Jupiter’s moo...
2,870,990,000 km (19.218 AU) from the Sun, Uranus hangs on the wall of space as a mysterious blue green planet. With a mass of 8.683e25 kg and a diameter of 51,118 km at the equator, Uranus is the third largest planet in our solar system. It has been described as a planet that was slugged a few billion years ago by a large onrushing object, knocked down (never to get up), and now proceeds to roll around an 84-year orbit on its belly. As the strangest of the Jovian planets, the description is accurate. Uranus has a 17 hour and 14 minute day and takes 84 years to make its way about the sun with an axis tilted at around 90° with retrograde rotation. Stranger still is the fact that Uranus' axis is almost parallel to the ecliptic, hence the expression "on its belly".
Our knowledge gained of Titan has drastically improved since the early 1980s when Voyager flew past it. Titan is Saturn’s largest moon and the second largest moon of our solar system. It has a diameter estimated roughly 40% of Earth’s moon (Titan’s Radius: 2576, Moon’s Radius: 1737) and is 80% more massive (Titan’s Mass: 1.35 x 10^23 kg, Moon’s Mass: 7.35 x 10^22 kg. Titan has a atmospheric surface pressure 50% more than of Earth’s. In addition to that, Titan is the only moon to have a dense atmosphere. Titan’s atmosphere has been calculated to be 4.5 times more dense than of Earth’s atmosphere, which can been clearly noted by the layers of haze seen. The atmosphere in Titan is approximately 1.5km and is mainly composed of nitrogen. Titan has a very similar vertical atmospheric structure to earth, Titan has a troposphere temperature of ~94-~70K, a tropopause temperature of 70.4K and a stratosphere temperature of ~70-175K.
Saturn's sales are down, and market share needs to be increased. Also, the product line is too narrow. Current advertising is targeting the younger population, but the average age of a Saturn buyer is 43. Saturn's initial focus on employee relationships seems to be fading as demonstrated with the clash between GM designers in Europe and the U.S. on the L-Series car. In addition, overall styling of the vehicles needs to be addressed.
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun. It includes 4 rings. It has 67 moons too. The surface temperature is -108 degrees celsius. Jupiter is the fourth shiniest object in the the sky. Jupiter has the shortest amount of days, hence 9 hours and 55 minutes. Jupiter will orbit the sun every 118 Earth years. The red spot on Jupiter is an enormous storm on the planet. The storm has occurred for 350 years. 3 Earths can fit in the red