Fun Facts 1
Who is Saturn named after?
the Roman god of agriculture and wealth
The objects in Saturn's rings range in size from
Specks of dust to the size of a house.
How many Earth hours is one day on Saturn?
10.7 hours
How strong is Saturn's magnetosphere compared to Earth's?
578 times more powerful
Where do the aurora on Saturn come from?
From the particles ejected from Saturn's moons
Saturn has 146 moons and one has a unique type of lake.
Methane lake
The rings orbit around Saturn at "same" or "different" speeds
Different
How many Earth years does it take Saturn to revolve around the Sun?
29.4 Earth years
Saturn is the ___ planet from the sun
What is 6th?
It takes sunlight how many minutes to to travel to Saturn?
80 minutes?
Saturn's composition is mostly made up of ...
hydrogen and helium
Scientists recently discovered ______ on Saturn's B rings.
Ice mountains two miles high
What is Saturn's axis tilt and what does that mean?
26.73°, which means it has yearly seasonal cycles
What happens to the theorized diamonds that are created in Saturn's storms?
The melt
The Romans discovered Saturn using a telescope.
False.
How far away are Saturn's rings from the planet itself?
175,000 miles
Describe Saturn's composition and surface
Saturn is made up of gas and has no surface.
What do the pressure and temperature from Saturn's storms produce? Explain the process.
It is theorized to cause the methane gas and carbon in the atmosphere to create and then rain diamonds
How far is Saturn from the Sun?
886 million miles
If Earth is the size of a nickel, Saturn is the size of a ...
Volleyball
Saturn's rings started out as ________ and became _______.
Pieces of comments, asteroids, or moons that were torn apart by Saturn's powerful gravity ... chunks of ice and rock
Why could no spacecraft fly through Saturn unscathed?
Because extreme pressures and temperatures deep inside the planet would crush, melt, and vaporize the spacecraft
Describe the north pole of Saturn.
--there's a six-sided jet stream
--the hexagon shaped pattern spans 20,000 miles and has a massive, rotating storm at the center that creates winds upwards of 200 mph
Saturn is known as a ______ planet.
Gas