What Are the Rings around Saturn Made Of?Question submitted by Jenifer Smith's fifth-grade class at Russell Boulevard Elementary School.Tabitha Finch
The gas giant Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system, but its distance from Earth has made it difficult to explore. Aside from a few flybys from probes in the 1970s and 1980s, the only thorough examination of the planet came when the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft reached S...
Earth is our densely populated home planet, known for its water and life, while Saturn is a gas giant famous for its extensive ring system.
Scientists are only now fitting together all the various chapters of this turbulent history, our history, that of a succession of helpful nudges, lucky chances and beneficial cataclysms. Without a helping hand from Jupiter and Saturn, without the Moon, without hurtling comets, without the power of...
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The chunks of ice and rock that makes up the Oort cloud probably formed much closer to the Sun during the early days of the solar system’s formation. As the protoplanetary disk came together into planets, moons, and the Sun, a bunch of material got left over, gathered into planetesimals...
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🪐 Ringed Planet Representing a planet with rings (like Saturn). ⭐ Star Indicating a single star. 🌟 Glowing Star Representing a bright shining star. 🌠 Shooting Star Representing a meteor. 🌌 Milky Way Indicating the galaxy. ☁️ Cloud Representing a generic cloud. ⛅ Sun Behind...
But Saturn's rings-most of them, anyway-are pristine,so bright and shiny that they make Saturn the jewel of the solar system. So, the hypothesis that the rings are just made of material left over from the time of planetary formation-that hypothesis must be wrong. ...
In a thin-film memory, one of the two wires passing by a spot of magnetic material, if the spots in its row were to be selected, always had current flowing in the same direction. The other wire, passing perpendicular to it, could have current flowing either upwards or downwards. The ma...