SATURN

SATURN'S SYMBOL

NAME

• Greek mythology
• Chronos is zues' father
• Roman
• Saturn father of Jupiter
• Time lord/titan

DISCOVERY

• There is no single peroson
• It has been known by many
• Cultures & People

DISTANCE'S

• 8th in the solar system
• 150 Million Au from the sun
• 1.427 billion Km from the sun
• 9.176 Million Au from Earth
• 1.2 Billion Km from earth

PLANET MEASUREMENTS

• Mass 5.6832 x 10-26 Km
• Volume 8.2713 x 10-15
• Circumference 3.7588 x 10-5

MEASUREMENTS CONTINUTED

• Density 0.687/ cm-3
• Gravity 34.3 ft/s-2
• 100lbs on Earth =
• 106.4lbs on Saturn

ORBIT & ROTATION

• # of days to orbit sun
• 10,755.7 Earth Years!
• Length of on day
• 10 hours & 39 minutes

ORBIT & ROTATION CONTINUED

• Perihelion
• 838,741,509
• Aphelion
• 943,237,322

APPEARANCE

• Huge Gas Giant
• 8 rings

RINGS

• 4 Main groups 3 Faint rings
• Each group of ring's contains
• Thousands of rings each containing
• Rocks and other material
• The rings are gray & brown

MOONS

• Greek:22
• Norse:19 unknown:1
• Roman:2 Celtic:1
• Welsh:1 Irish:1
• Inuit:5

CORE COMPOSITION

• Rocky & lots of metal elements
• Iron and other material

SURFACE COMPOSITION

• Primarily made of simple molecules
• Hydrogen & Helium
• Ice methane, ice ammonium water ice
• Doesn't have metallic hydrogen
• But it does have more ice

ATMOSPHERE

• Major gases
• About 75% hydrogen
• About 25% helium
• Minor gases
• Traces of ices of diffrent kinds

SURFACE

• Winds : 1800 km/ 500m/s
• Temperatures -270f° to -168f°
• Pressure 74,898 m 120,553 km

WEATHER

• Cloud decks of ammonium,
• Hydrosulfide, Water, Lighting
• Ultraviolte, tight charge molecules
• Very windy

FORMS OF WATER

• Ice of methane
• Ice of ammonium
• Ice of Water
• (Enceladus rains on saturn)

EXPLORATION

• Cassini Huggens launched in 1979
• Poinerll launched in 1979
• Voyager I launched in 1980
• Voyager II launched in 1981

HABITABILITY

• Saturn has no solid ground
• Enceladus: has water
• Temps of -86,995 f°
• Temps also to 114,467.5 f°
• So yeah no

FUTURE

• There is no future for saturn
• Unless we some how make
• Solid ground for use to use
• Then extend the Atmosphere

TERRAFORMING

CITATIONS

• http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/whycassini/planet.html
• http://www.windows2universe.org/saturn/interior/S_int_compo_overview.html
• http://www.mcwdn.org/SPACE/Saturn.html
• http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/525169/Saturn/54278/Basic-astrono...
• http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_Saturn & terraforming.wikia.com/wiki/Saturn