What are the great white spots on Saturn's atmosphere?
Storms
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1 year on Saturn is equal to ______ Earth days
10,756 Earth days
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Are Saturn's rings visible from Earth?
Yes; Saturn’s rings are the only rings that are visible to see from Earth
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What is the name of Saturn's largest moon?
Titan
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Is Saturn the second largest planet in the solar system?
Yes; Jupitar is the largest
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What is Saturn's atmosphere mostly made of?
96% hydrogen and 4% helium
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What is Saturn's rotational speed?
10 ours 45 minutes
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How many classifications are there of Saturn's rings?
7 broad classifications A,B,C,D,E,F,G
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What makes the moon, Phoebe different from the other lager moons that orbit Saturn?
Phoebe orbits the planet in an opposite direction as to Saturn's larger moons
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What is Saturn's Greek name ?
Cronus
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What is Saturn's core encased in?
A layer of liquid, metallic hydrogen
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What is Saturn's axial tilt and does Saturn experience seasons?
26.73 and yes; Saturn does experience seasons
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What is the largest of the gaps between rings A and B ?
Cassani, at 4,700 km
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What made Voyager 2's mission to Saturn a better success than Voyager 1?
Voyager 2's photopolarimeter it was able to observe the planet's rings at much higher resolution and to discover many more ringlets within the main rings as too Voyager 1 the instrument stopped working.
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Who was the first person to study Saturn?
Galileo Galilei
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what is the thickness of metallic hydrogen layer and molecular hydrogen layer ?
metallic hydrogen layer 14,500 km
molecular hydrogen layer 18,500 km
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What shape does Saturn take, and Why?
The shape of an oblate spheroid ( sphere that bulges near the equator) because of its fast rotation speed
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What are the dimensions of Saturn's rings?
Thin rings about 250,000 km in diameter, less than 1 kilometer thick
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What were some of the discoveries that Pioneer 11 made on its mission to Saturn?
Some discoveries was the narrow ring outside the A ring named the F ring, a new satellite 200 kilometers in diameter, and provided evidence of the existence of Saturn's magnetic field.
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What makes Saturn able to float on water?
It is the least dense of the planets with a gravity of (0.7)
and mostly made of 75% hydrogen and 25% helium
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what is the Kelvin Helmholtz mechanism?
Saturn makes energy by the compressing of the planet’s gravity due to its enormous mass and the additional heat caused through friction of helium rain
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What is the average orbital distance of Saturn?
1.43x10^9 km
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What are Saturn's rings made of?
Tiny ice particles, grains of dust and rocks that can range up to a kilometer ( half a mile across)
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What properties make up Titan's atmosphere and what wavelength gets blocked out because of its atmosphere?
The surface of Titan is a thick nitrogen-rich atmosphere that causes visible light to be blocked, the atmosphere is approximately 95% nitrogen with traces of methane.