Saturn

Saturn

By Josh Pantony.

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Where is SaturnWhat is Saturn

Made OfSaturn’s Weather

Saturn’s Amazing Rings

Saturn’s AmazingMoons Titan

Saturn in History What we can See Missions

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Where is Saturn

There are 8 planets in our solar system; all 8 planets travel around the sun, Saturn is the

6th planet from the sun.

Where is Saturn

Saturn travels around the sun once every 29

and a half Earth years, this journey is

called its orbit.

Where is Saturn

Planets are always spinning. The time it takes a planet to spin around once is called

a day. A day on Saturn is 10 and a half hours long on

Earth.

Where is Saturn

Saturn is the second biggest planet in the solar system. Believe it or not but for its size it is also the lightest planet in the solar

system. Saturn is one of the 4 “Gas Giants.”

What is Saturn made of

Saturn’s outer layer is made of hydrogen

gas. In Saturn’s middle layer the hydrogen gas

becomes liquid. The centre of Saturn is

made of rock; Saturn’s rocky centre

is about the same size as Earth.

Hydrogen Gas

liquid

Rocky centre

Saturn’s Weather

Saturn is a very stormy planet. The winds can travel at 1170 km per hour. One of the large

storms on Saturn is called the dragon storm. The dragon storm got its

name from its shape. The dragon storm is a giant

thunder storm. It produces lighting just like

a storm on Earth.


Saturn has the largest and brightest system of rings in the whole solar system. The

rings on Saturn are made of ice with

some dust and rock.


There are chunks of rocks in Saturn’s rings, some of

these chunks of rock are as big as a house! There

are 7 rings around Saturn. Some of these

rings are very small and hard to see, only 9

metres thick which is as tall as a 2 storey house.

The bigger rings are made up of many smaller

ringlets.

Saturn’s Amazing Moons

Moons are big rocks that orbit planets. Only 1 moon orbits Earth, but at least 60 moons orbit

Saturn. Saturn’s moons vary in size. The smallest moon is “Pan” and the biggest is

“Titan.”

Pan

Titan

List of Saturn’s main Moons Name of moon year

• Titan 1655 • Iapetus 1671 • Rhea 1672 • Tethys 1684 • Dione 1684 • Enceladus 1789 • Mimas 1789 • Hyperion 1848 • Phoebe 1898 • Janus 1966 • Epimetheus 1977 • Atlas 1980 • Helene 1980 • Calypso 1980 • Telesto 1980 • Prometheus 1980 • Pandora 1990 • Pan 1990

Saturn’s Amazing Moons

TitanTitan is Saturn’s biggest moon and is the second

biggest moon in the whole solar system. In comparison to Earth Titan is about half the size

of Earth.

Titan

Saturn in History

Saturn was well known in ancient times.

Saturn is the furthest planet that can be seen from Earth

without a telescope.

Saturn in HistoryGalileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer; he

built his own telescope to study the sky.

When Galileo Galilei looked at Saturn though his own telescope in 1610 he saw 2 lumps on either side of Saturn, he called these

two lumps “Saturn’s ears.”

Saturn in History

In 1656 Dutch astronomer Christian Huygens

viewed Saturn though a much more powerful

telescope and he discovered that “Saturn’s

ears” were actually Saturn’s amazing rings.

What we can SeeFrom Earth, Saturn

looks like a bright yellow star. It is easy

to see without a telescope. But with a

telescope you are able to see Saturn’s

rings.

Earth’s Moon

Saturn

What we can See

Some telescopes orbit the Earth and take

pictures from space, pictures taken in

space are very clear. The Hubble telescope takes many pictures of space and stars.

MissionsThe most important mission to Saturn is

the Cassini – Huygens mission. The mission was

made up of the orbiter Cassini and the space

probe Huygens.

Missions

At the beginning of the mission, Huygens was

attached to Cassini; they were then taken to space

by a rocket.

The rocket was launched in 1997 and reached Saturn

in December 2004.

That’s a trip time of 7 years!

Missions

The Cassini Huygens spacecraft then

separated into two. Orbiter, Cassini began

orbiting Saturn, to study the planet from space. While the space probe Huygens was released from Cassini and then sent to Titan. It took 20

days for huygens to reach Titan after being released

from Cassini.

Missions

Cassini and Huygens are still discovering

new facts and uncovering the

secrets of Saturn and Titan to this day.

Video Library

Titan Saturn System Mission

Cassini – Huygens Mission

Cassini at Saturn

Where I got my information

All of my information is from the book

“Blast off lets explore Saturn”

All three videos featured in my power point are from the NASA website.

Thank You

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