SATURN | 1. | | | | 2. | |  | | NASA Profile http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/saturn.htm Get descriptions of the rings, moons, and landscapes of this large planet. Includes a gallery of satellite photos. | | | | 3. | | | Saturn Ring Plane Crossings http://ringside.arc.nasa.gov/www/rpx/rpx.html Track the moons of Saturn or produce a diagram of the planet, including the positions of moons and rings. | | | 4. | | | Middle-Sized Satellites of Saturn http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/research/outerp/ssat.html Covers the planet's main moons, including Mimas, Enceladus, Dione, Rhea, Titan, and Iapetus. Find images and background. |  | | 5. | | | General Features of Saturn http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/saturn/features.html Get a description of this gas giant's space probes, view Hubble Space Telescope images, and discover facts about the planet's composition. |  | | 6. | | | Saturn: What We Know http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/Science/saturn_what.html Read about the planet's evolution and composition, and take a look at planned explorations. | | | 7. | | | Saturn - Mason's Guide to the Solar System http://www.bk.psu.edu/faculty/cooper/solarsystem/saturn.html Review a list of facts about this large planet, which appears yellow in color and has 22 moons. Find links to related resources. | | | 8. | | | Saturn - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/saturn/ Review basic details about the solar system's second-largest planet. Find out the problems NASA spacecraft encounter when exploring it. | | | 9. | | | Saturn Events http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/astro/saturn.html Learn how to spot this planet in the sky, find its solar coordinates, and discover little-known facts about its famed rings. | | | 10. | | | Saturn - Guide http://www.saturnrising.com/planet.html Find a list of links to resources for this ringed planet, which is sixth from the Sun. Visit a photo gallery. | | | 11. | | | Saturn Tour http://www.micropop.com/universe/saturn.html Get a catalog of facts about this ringed planet, which is one of the largest in the solar system. View a photo. | | | 12. | | ![[PIA00335]](http://ringmaster.arc.nasa.gov/saturn/PIA00335_thumb.jpg) | | Saturn's Ring System http://ringmaster.arc.nasa.gov/saturn/saturn.html Understand the complex gases and atmospheric pressures that come together to create the unique rings of this planet. Listen to short discussions. | | | | 13. | | | Saturn and Satellites http://emma.la.asu.edu/SOLAR_SYST_TOUR/Saturn.html Get photos and artist renderings of this majestic planet and her moons. See details about its atmosphere and landscape. | | | 14. | | | Cassini: Voyage to Saturn http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini What's Hot! Mission Status What's New! Cassini's Image of Asteroid [ Science || Mission || Spacecraft || Flight Ops ] [ Summary || Partners || Why Go? || Kid's Page || Images/Video || Nuclear Safety ] [ Virtual Tour || Related Links || Products |.. | ![[Animation]](http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/gifs/topgifs/top1.gif) | | 15. | | ![[NODE LOGO]](http://ringside.arc.nasa.gov/www/nodelogo_t.gif) | | The Planetary Rings Node http://ringside.arc.nasa.gov/ The Planetary Rings Node is devoted to archiving and distributing scientific data sets relevant to planetary ring systems. The two major classes of ring data are images and occultation profiles, although a variety of additional data types (e.g. spe | | | | 16. | |  | | The Planet Saturn http://wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/USGSFlag/Space/wall/saturn.html Solar System Chart | Solar System Text (Non-Tables) | (Non-Tables) The Planet Saturn Constants MEAN RADIUS: 58232 km MASS: 95.2 (Earth=1) DENSITY: 0.69 (g/cm^3) GRAVITY: 1.16 (Earth=1) ORBIT PERIOD: 29.46 (Earth years) ROTATION PERIOD: 0.436 ... | | | | 17. | | | Useful URLs: Saturn (Planet) http://www.bccls.org/reference/dewey/AAA-0088.shtml Useful URLs: Saturn (Planet) Cassini: Voyage to Saturn @http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/ "The Cassini mission is an international venture involving NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), the Italian Space Agency (ASI), and several separate European. | | | 18. | |  | | NSSDC Photo Gallery: Saturn http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-saturn.html NSSDC Photo Gallery: Saturn - A collection of images of the planet Saturn, its rings, and its satellites | | | | 19. | | | Saturn http://athena.wednet.edu/curric/space/planets/saturn.html Saturn Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun. It is about ten times further from the Sun and nine times bigger than the Earth. The Saturn year is almost 30 Earth years. The day is about 10 hours, a little longer than Jupiter's day. Saturn is the.. | | | 20. | | | Saturn, Rings, Moons http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/Images/slides/slide3.html SATURN, RINGS, AND MOONS This 1981 Voyager-2 image shows the vast Saturn ring system, as well as three small icy satellites and the shadow of a fourth. Saturn is the second largest planet in the Solar System. It has a volume about 760 times that of. | | | 21. | | | Saturn size comparisons http://ic-www.arc.nasa.gov/ic/projects/bayes-group/Atlas/size/Saturn Saturn is 9.07 times the diameter of Earth. Saturn is 2.3 times the diameter of the planet Uranus. Saturn is .827 times the diameter of the planet Jupiter. Saturn is 17.1 times the diameter of the planet Mars. Saturn is 31.8 times the diameter of... | | | 22. | | | Saturn's Rings and The Roche Limit http://pegasus.astro.umass.edu/a100/handouts/roche.html Saturn's Rings and the Roche Limit Planetary rings consist of a huge number of small particles all independently following their orbits around the planet. Why don't the individual ring particles accumlate together to form a single satellite? The... | | | 23. | | | Saturn http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/saturnpage.html Saturn Saturn Fact Sheet Saturnian Satellite Fact Sheet Saturnian Rings Fact Sheet Images of Saturn - from the Catalog of Spaceborne Imaging Images of Saturn's Satellites and Rings - from the Catalog of Spaceborne Imaging NSSDC Planetary Photo... | | | 24. | | | Saturn http://www.planetarybiology.com/astronomical/saturn.htm Planetary Biology Home Up Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto 47 Ursa Majoris b 51 Pegasi b 70 Virginis b Imaginary Planet Rho Coronae Borealis b Tau Bootis A b HD 187123 b HD 195019 b HD 217107 b Ups Andromodae b Ups... | | | 25. | | | | 26. | |  | | Saturn Objectives http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/Science/saturnobj.html Scientific Objectives Saturn Objectives: The specific Cassini objectives for Saturn science are to: Determine the abundances of gases in the atmosphere, establish isotope ratios for the most abundant elements, provide information that might lead to. | | | | 27. | | | Solar System Tourist | Saturn http://www.efni.com/~brentt/tourist/saturn.htm Saturn Lowest density of any planet -- 0.69. Saturn overall is lighter than water. Most known moons; current count is 18. Recent Hubble discoveries may bring that total up as much as four more, but more likely two or none at all. Jupiter has 16... | | | 28. | | | | 29. | | StarChild: The planet Saturn composed of hydrogen and helium. Saturn's rapid spin tends to flatten out the poles while causing a bulge at its equator. The winds in Saturn's atmosphere reach speeds up to 1800 http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_s...
| | 30. | | | APOD: April 24, 1998 - Infrared Saturn http://www.sai.msu.su/apod/ap980424.html Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. April 24, 1998 Infrared Saturn Credit: E... |  |
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