Discoveries
Edward Ashton and has team found these.
What are 62 new moons?
Traveling around the sun makes a planet like Saturn part of this.
What is the solar system?
Saturn has this many moons
What is 146?
These gases make up or comprise most of Saturn.
What are hydrogen and helium?
Saturn is this number in size compared to the other planets in the solar system.
What is second largest?
In addition to Titan and Enceladus, this is another of Saturn's moons.
What is Hyperion?
the name given to the curved path of a celestial object around a star, planet or moon.
What is an orbit?
Within its rings, Saturn has thousands of these tiny bodies.
What are moonlets?
These metals, found at Jupiter's center, are surrounded by rocky material.
What are nickel and iron?
Saturn's rings are comprised of these.
What are chunks of ice and rock?
The recent sunspot that created an intense geomagnetic storm on July 2, 2023, was this size compared to Earth.
What is eight times the size of Earth.
This instrument captured an image of Saturn and its rings.
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
The name of the moon with an ocean under its icy crust.
What is Enceladus?
This gas, which absorbs light from the sun, causes Saturn to look dark.
What is methane?
Saturn is in this position from the sun.
What is the sixth planet from the sun?
Massive solar storms often interfere with this in the United States.
What is high-frequency radio communication?
This is the type of camera used to make the rings of Saturn stand out.
What is near-infrared?
The largest of Saturn's moons, this orbiting body has a diameter of this size.
What is 3,200 miles?
Along with sodium, potassium and chlorine, this compound found is found in the icy water jets from the South Pole of Enceladus.
What is carbonate?
This scientific organization researches space and celestial beings.
What is NASA?
These two facts about Saturn's surface and its atmosphere make it both different and similar to Earth.
What is a non-solid surface and water vapor in its atmosphere.
It is 2023. At this year, Saturn will have made one orbit around the sun.
What is 2052?
Saturn's tiny moonlets are found in these.
What are Saturn's compacted rings?
The discovery of this element in icy grains in Saturn's atmosphere suggests that the ocean waters under the icy crust of Enceladus have the potential for the formation of life.
What is phosphorous?
The acronym NASA stands for this.
What is National Aeronautics and Space Administration?