Saturn

Saturn
✓ Saturn is the second largest planet in th
solar
✓ system
Saturn also is the sixth planet
from
✓ the sun
Saturn also know as "a roman
god of made
✓ It is farming".
up of liquid and
gasses
✓ Saturn rotate or spin around is about
10.5
✓ earthlong
Saturn hours
year is nearly 11,000
earth
✓ days
Saturn moving through space is about
21,500 miles per hour ( 35,000 km/h )
Rings of
 Saturn's Ring
✓ Discovered by
Galileo (1600s)
✓ Galileo discovered rings 1610,
though believed they were moons on
either side
✓ He is the first person
who see saturn's ring
 Saturn Rings has a 7 main
ring
Satur's ring system has been divided
into seven main rings grouping.
Astronomers have named these main
rings grouping the A,B,C,D,E,F and G
But this ring are not located alphabetical
rings
order because they where named in the
From
order inner to discovery
of their outer, the rings are
named D, C, B, A, F, G and E
this is what saturn's rings
 Dou you know that saturn
has a moon?
Saturn does have atleast
53 moons
• Christiaan huygens -
discovered the first known
moon, TITAN (1655).
•TITAN - 2nd solar
JEAN-DOMINIC CASSINI -
discovered Four(4) moons
• lapetus (1671) - has one side as bright
as a snow and one side as dark as
black velvet
• Rhea (1672)
• Dione (1684) - 4th
largest moon
• Tethys (1684)
WILLIAM HERSCHEL -discovered
MIMAS and ENCELADUS in (1789)
• Mimas - has an enormous
crater on one side.
• hyperion (1848)

• Phoebe (1898)
• Epimetheus and Janus were
discovered in 1966
• Cassini-huygens - has
discovered six(6) moons
• Prometheus and Pandora - these
moons interact with ring material,
sheperding the ring in its orbit.
• Phoebe • Pan - closest moon,
• Enceladusfastest orbit
• Telesto and
• Hyperion calypso
• Prometheus
• Atlas
4 moons discovered by
VOYAGER
• Atlas
• Prometheus
• Pandora

• Pan
 6 Moons discovered
by CASSINI
• Methone
• Pallene
• Polydeuces
• Dephian
• Anthe
• Aegaeon