By Joel Crespo
General Science
What is Saturn?
• Saturn neighbors
the planets Jupiter
and Venus.
• Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and
the second largest planet in the Solar
System.
Saturn’s connections to Mythology
• Saturn was named Cronus in Greek
Mythology.
• In Roman Mythology Saturn is the God
of Agriculture.
Interesting facts about Saturn
• Saturn is the root
word for the English
word “Saturday”
• Saturn’s
atmosphere is
made of helium
and hydrogen.
• Saturn has 53
named
satellites!
Saturn’s Moons
• Saturn’s biggest
moon is Titan.
Saturn has
62 moons!
Saturn’s Physical characteristics
• Saturn Has rings.
• Saturn has a very hot interior, reaching 11,700 °C at
the core.
• It also has a magnetic field.
• The outer atmosphere of Saturn has traces of
ammonia, acetylene, ethane, phosphine and
methane.
• Saturn is the least dense of the planets.
More About Saturn’s Rings
A,B,C,D,F.,G are how astronomers had
classified Saturn’s rings.
Visiting Saturn
Saturn was first visited by NASA's
Space Probes, Pioneer 11 in 1979 and
later on by the Voyager 1 and the
Voyager 2.
Voyager confirmed the existence of
puzzling radial inhomogeneities in the
rings called "spokes" which were first
reported by amateur astronomers.
More Saturn Facts
• Metric: -178 °C
• English: -288 °F
• Scientific Notation: 95 K
• Volume: 827,129,915,150,897 km3
Orbit Size (semi-major axis): 1,426,666,422 km
Founder of Saturn
Galileo
Galileo was the first to observe it with a
telescope in 1610; he noted its odd appearance
but was confused by it. This was due to he fact
that Earth would sometimes orbit through
Saturn's rings.
Saturn Has Clouds!
• Not many of you may realize this but Saturn
has clouds!
• Most of Saturn’s clouds are mainly consisted
of ammonia and ice.
Similarities to Earth
• Saturn also has winds just like Earth but
Saturn is known to have the fastest winds in
our Solar System.
• Saturn contains water too.
• Both have an atmosphere and clouds.
Differences between Earth and
Saturn
• Size
• Completely different atmospheres
• One has a durable environment for life while the other
doesn’t
• Difference in amount of moons between the two
Different views on Saturn
Astronomers have not only
been able to take regular
visible photos of Saturn but
also Ultraviolet and
Infrared, all thanks to
Space Probes.
Saturn’s great White Spot
• Is also known as the stormy cloud on Saturn.
• Saturn’s storm happens to appear every 30 Earth years and if astronomers
are correct, the next storm is going to hit Saturn in 2020.
• The most intense and famous Storm on Saturn had
occurred in 1933.
Thermal Infrared photos of Saturn
• `
Visible
Thermal
Infrared
Thermal Infrared
without rings.
Saturn is Jupiter-like?
• Saturn has been known to be very similar to
Jupiter.
• Saturn's interior is similar to Jupiter's consisting
of a rocky core, a liquid metallic hydrogen layer
and a molecular hydrogen layer.
• Like Jupiter, Saturn is about 75% hydrogen and
25% helium with traces of water, methane,
ammonia and "rock“.
• That’s why scientist call Saturn “Jupiter-like”.
Saturn’s Gravity
• Saturn is 95 times more massive than Earth,
though its gravity is only 1.08% times that on
Earth.
• This means that a person weighing 100
pounds would weigh 108 pounds on Saturn.
CREDITS
• Thanks for watching! Hope you didn’t fall
asleep and hope you enjoyed it.
• Special thanks to all those who helped me out
and also special thanks to Ms. Confer.
Resources
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I used sites and these are my resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn
http://nineplanets.org/saturn.html
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cf
m?Object=Saturn
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