Gabriella Shook, Danielle Poindexter, and Will Foster
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Gabriella Shook, Danielle Poindexter, and Will Foster
Saturn
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?We see Saturn at different angles
because its axis is tilted 29 degrees
October
March
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
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
Saturn’s Year and Rotation
Saturn’s year is 29.46 Earth years
Saturn’s
rotation is
10.66 Earth hours
Saturn’s Atmosphere
Most of the upper
atmosphere is made of
hydrogen and helium
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
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
Saturn’s Name
Named after the Roman god of the
harvest
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
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