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
Saturn has a
strange hexagon shaped cloud structure at its north pole?
Did you know that the Yoruba god of the sea, Olokun, lives in a palace under the sea, with human and fish attendants?
Earth and Space Science Concept of the Day
Do you know what this word or phrase means?
SlickensidesxSlickensides : Slickensides are polished striated rock surfaces caused by one rock mass moving across another on a fault.
Click on the word to find out!
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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