Welcome to Saturn

Can Saturn hear? Saturn was first spotted through Galileo's telescope, in 1610. He suspected that he found a planet with three segments. It looked like a jug with handles, or a big headed Saturn with ears. Later a Dutch astronomer named Christiaan Huygens, changed the "ear" conception when he proposed that Saturn had solid rings around its planet. Further in time, a guy named Cassini proposed that they were rings made up of particles. This was an accurate deduction. While he was at it, he discovered a gap between the two outer rings and the middle ring, called the Cassini division. The inner ring is very blurry when you spot it. The one outside of it is the brightest ring. The outer and inner rings are separated by Cassini's discovery.

picture of Saturn

The all-hearing Saturn's trademark is its ring system. They stretch out as far as 136,200 kilometers from Saturn's core. Each ring ranges from one to five miles in thickness. They mainly consist of rocks and ice particles formed by frozen gases and water. These particles range from 0.0005 centimeters, the size of dust particles on earth to the boulder size of 33 feet, in diameter.

Yellow Saturn gets its color from its gas. It is composed of 88% hydrogen and 11% of helium. You can create a hearty Saturn if you add a pinch of methane, ammonia, ethane, acetylene, and phosphine and stir thoroughly with its hydrogen and helium. Saturn has a rotating time of 10 hours and 39 minutes. It takes 29.5 Earth years for it to orbit. Even though the gaseous yellow Saturn has a diameter of 74,900 miles and ranks the second largest planet of the solar system' it still has a mean density that is eight times less than Earth's. This is because it's mostly an enormous sphere of gas with a tiny rocky core, like a seed within a peach. There is metallic hydrogen close to Saturn's seed. This formed from compressed liquid hydrogen, which is the main element of Saturn. Metallic hydrogen is an electrical conductor, which give the planet a strong magnetic field, which will attract our ship toward the planet. When we get near the planet's center, get ready for some heat. All of the elements settle in its core creating the temperature of approximately 27,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Saturn radiates three times as much heat as it receives from the sun into space because it still has not gravitationally settled. Besides experiencing a lot of heat, you will have to face ultraviolet radiation. Stay protected, because the interaction between Saturn's top layered ionosphere and magnetosphere causes auroral emissions of ultraviolet radiation. This really isn't healthy for you.

Rings are not the only jewelry Saturn owns. Many satellites also decorate Saturn. Even though there are 18 known satellites, there could possible be as many as 20 satellites or more. The known satellites are composed of mainly rock and ice, like its rings. The most famous of them all is Titan. Titan is the only one that owns an atmosphere, let alone a thick one. Titan could have been a planet if orbited the moon. Instead it orbits Saturn every 16 days with a size that is larger than the planet of Mercury. Saturn must be the perfect romantic getaway. If Earth's one moon can light up its sky with romance, imagine 18 times more romance. At our destination, you may take long walks along Saturn's ring while gazing at the moons and stars.