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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.
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.
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