Rings
Who discovered Saturn's rings? *Hint: he actually thought they looked like "handles"
Galileo
Is Saturn a terrestrial planet or a gas giant?
Gas giant
True or False:
Saturn has a tilt similar to earth's tilt.
True.
What is Titan?
Saturn's biggest moon
What day of the week is named after Saturn?
Saturday
True or False
Saturn has thousands of rings, all made entirely of tiny ice particles.
False.
The rings are made of dust, ice and rocks.
Name the main 2 gases that make up the Saturn.
hydrogen and helium
Saturn's _____ rotation causes it to bulge in the middle.
Fast or slow
Fast
True or False:
Titan is almost as big as Mercury.
True
This scientist figured out that the "handles" on Saturn that Galileo had discovered were actually rings.
Christian Huygens
Are the edges of Saturn's rings are thin or thick?
Thin (only about 50 miles)
True or False
Saturn is frozen all the way through to the core.
False.
Saturn is more than 20,000 degrees F at its core.
Seasons are part of Saturn's year because of it's ____, which is similar to Earth's own ____.
*hint - 1 word fits both blanks
tilt
Due to its thick atmosphere, Titan appears what color when viewed from a spaceship?
Orange
What planet is known as Saturn's twin?
Jupiter
Name 1 scientific theory about how Saturn got its rings.
1. Giant asteroids or comets crashed into Saturn's moons, smashing them to pieces and making rings.
2. The rings were once asteroids or comets themselves, but they got too close to Saturn and were broken into tiny pieces, making the rings.
What are the stripes that can be seen on Saturn?
bands of clouds of violent storms
Saturn's speed of rotation gives ____ hours of day and ____ hours of night.
*hint - it's the same number for both
5
True or False:
Due to the thick clouds on Titan, it's difficult to see the surface of Titan from a spaceship.
True.
True or False:
Saturn is hard to see in the night sky.
False.
Name the 2 best-known shepherd moons of Saturn.
Pandora and Prometheus
Saturn is the only planet in the solar system which is less _____ than water, meaning that it would float if it were in a giant bathtub.
dense
Saturn's orbit around the sun takes about ____ years.
30 earth years
This is the name of the probe that collected dirt samples from Titan.
Huygens
The goal of the _________ was to explore Saturn and its moons.
Cassini Mission