Explore Saturn
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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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Did you know?
Did you know that the
temperature in the Earth's core is hotter than the Sun’s surface?
Did you know that the Maya believed that the Earth was flat, and that there was a jaguar called a bacab in each corner that supported the sky?
Earth and Space Science Concept of the Day
Do you know what this word or phrase means?
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
Geologists have found evidence that sea ice extended to the equator 716.5 million years ago, bringing new precision to a "snowball Earth" event long suspected to have taken place around that time. Funded...
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