Explore Saturn
The Giant planets do not have the same layered structure that the terrestrial planets do. Their ...
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The dramatic appearance of Saturn stems mainly from the spectacular rings. What is visible ...
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Saturn's magnetosphere is not as big as Jupiter's, but is very large nonetheless. It extends ...
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Saturn has the largest, most complex, and best-known ring system in our Solar System. ...
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There's a lot of strange and interesting stuff going on at both the North and South Poles of ...
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All of the relevant information about Saturn collected on one page, including details about size, orbit ...
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The planet was named after the Roman god, Saturn, the god of agriculture and the harvest. ...
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A table containing information about the spacecraft that have visited Saturn ...
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Access wonderful captioned photos and illustrations that will inspire and excite you. ...
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These are links to other great web sites about Saturn. But beware: you don't want to get caught ...
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you know that
sunspots
are dark because of a balance of thermal and
magnetic
pressure?
James Clerk Maxwell developed a system of equations that is fundamental to an area of physics – do you know what equations there are?
Earth and Space Science Concept of the Day
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Orographic liftxOrographic lift : Occurs when an air mass is forced to rise over geographic relief from a lower elevation. As the air mass rises it expands and cools adiabatically, which can raise the relative humidity to 100%, create clouds and precipitation.
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Research Highlights
A magnitude-8.1 earthquake and tsunami that killed 192 people last year in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga was in fact a triple-whammy. The 8.1 "great earthquake" concealed and triggered two...
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