Saturn's Rings
Saturn's rings are made out of ____ and ___.
rock and ice
True or False: Saturn is not a perfect circle.
True, the atmosphere of the planet is so strong that it actually pushes the planet into an oval shape.
It's very stormy on Saturn because the planet has a very fast _______.
a. rotation b. pressure c. atmosphere
a. rotation
True or False: Saturn is the 6th planet from the sun.
True
Through his telescope Galileo thought that Saturn's rings were:
a. moons b. 2 more planets c. gas
b. 2 more planets
He thought Saturn was a large planet with two smaller planets next to it. What he was seeing were the rings.
Saturn has ___ moons.
a. 5 b. 53 c. 503
b. 53
Saturn is a ___ giant.
a. ice b. rocky c. gas
c. gas
True or False: Saturn has bands of different colored clouds like Jupiter.
True. They are just fainter in color because Saturn is further away from the sun and thus colder.
Another name for Saturn's rings is _______.
a. donuts b. asteroids c. ringlets
True or False: Saturn often has large storms called oval hurricanes.
True. In 2010 one storm was so large that it wrapped around the planet. It was around 300,000 km wide, and traces of it were able to be seen for years.
True or False: Saturn is mostly made up of hydrogen.
True. The outer layer of the planet is mainly made out of Molecular Hydrogen, and closer to the core is Metallic Hydrogen.
True or False: A day on Saturn is 24 hours long.
False. A day on Saturn is only 10 hours long.
True or False: Saturn's rings are very thick and solid.
False, they are very thin (only 10 meters thick) and made up of many small pieces.
True or False: Saturn has the largest moon in the solar system, Titan.
False. Titan is the 2nd largest. Jupiter's Ganymede is the largest.
True or False: Saturn has three main rings.
True or False: Saturn's moon Titan has cryovolcanoes that erupt water.
True!
True or False: The particles that make up Saturn's rings can be as tiny as a grain of sand or as big as a house.
True.
True or False: At it's north pole there is a 6-sided hexagon shape.
True, this hexagonal vortex shape is a natural outcome of spinning fluid on the planet's surface. It is wider than Earth.
True or false: Saturn's atmosphere has very strong pressure.
True. Yes, it is so strong that it would crush even our best spacecraft.
True or False: NASA has found signs of life on Saturn.
False. However, there may be life on its moons Titan and Enceladus that both have water.