Saturn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Saturn, along with Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, is classified as a gas giant. Together, these...
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The adjacent image is a rare view of Saturn's rings seen just after the Sun has set below the ring plane, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope on Nov. 21, 1995. This perspective is unusual because the Earth is slightly above and the Sun slightly below the rings.
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The rings of Saturn have puzzled astronomers ever since they were discovered by Galileo in 1610, during the first telescopic observations of the night sky. ... Beyond that are two far fainter rings named G and E. The particles in Saturn's rings are composed primarily of water ice and range from microns to meters in size.
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This grand mosaic consists of 126 images acquired in a tile-like fashion, covering one end of Saturn's rings to the other and the entire planet in between. The images were taken over the course of two hours on Oct. 6, 2004, while Cassini was approximately 6.3 million kilometers (3.9 million miles) from Saturn.
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www.solarviews.com/eng/saturn.htm
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Disappointingly, the rings of Saturn don't bear exotic, romantic, or even difficult-to-pronounce scientific names. After some deep-web exploration, we learned that the rings are simply referred to by letters of the alphabet.
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Saturn has four main groups of rings and three fainter, narrower ring groups. These groups are separated by gaps called divisions. Close up views of Saturn's rings by the Voyager spacecrafts, which flew by them in 1980 and 1981, showed that these seven ring groups are made up of thousands of smaller rings.
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Although Saturn's rings were first observed by Galileo in 1610, his telescope was not powerful enough to unambiguously resolve the ring system. ... When we think of Saturn's rings, we are usually imagining the globe of Saturn surrounded by its brightly reflective disk. This disk is composed of two rings, the outer A ring...
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www.planetary.org/explore/topics/saturn/rings.html
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The rings of Saturn have puzzled astronomers since Galileo Galilei discovered them with his telescope in 1610. Detailed study by the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft in the 1980s only increased the mystery.
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Saturn's Rings to Disappear Tuesday ; By Robert Roy Britt; Editorial Director; posted: 10 August 2009; 09:01 am ET; ... Saturn's rings, loaded with ice and mud, boulders and tiny moons, is 170,000 miles wide. But the shimmering setup is only about 30 feet thick. The rings harbor 35 trillion-trillion tons of ice,
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