Saturn is the crown jewel of the solar system, beautiful and fascinating. It is a gas giant and has a broad set of rings made of ice particles. Moons create gaps in the rings via their gravity. Saturn has dozens of moons, including Titan, which is as big as Mercury and has a thick atmosphere and lakes of methane; and Enceladus which has an undersurface ocean and eruptions of water geysers. While we are still uncertain, it is entirely possible that either or both moons may support life.
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Chapters:
Introduction: Saturn 00:00
Saturn's Atmosphere 1:23
Saturn's Hexagonal Storm 2:02
Saturn's Rings 2:49
Anomalies in Saturn's Rings 4:45
Titan: Saturn's Largest Moon 6:31
Enceladus’s Water Geysers 8:34
Saturn's Other Moons 9:51
Review 11:22
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PHOTOS/VIDEOS
Saturn [ Ссылка ] [credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/G. Ugarkovic]
Interiors [ Ссылка ] [credit: Lunar and Planetary Institute]
Saturn Ring Plane Crossing [ Ссылка ] [credit: Erich Karkoschka (University of Arizona Lunar & Planetary Lab) and NASA/ESA]
Translucent Rings [ Ссылка ] [credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute]
Catching its Tail [ Ссылка ] [credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute]
Enter the Vortex [ Ссылка ] [credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute]
The Rose [ Ссылка ] [credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute]
Ice [ Ссылка ] [credit: NASA/JPL/University of Colorado]
Saturn’s rings to scale [ Ссылка ] [credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute]
Saturn’s Ring Plane [ Ссылка ] [credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute - Cassini-Huygens/NASA]
Saturn [ Ссылка ] [credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/G. Ugarkovic]
Shaping the Drapes (video) [ Ссылка ] [credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute]
Peaks [ Ссылка ] [credit: NASA / Jet Propulsion Lab / Space Science Institute]
Mimas Cassini [ Ссылка ]#/media/File:Mimas_Cassini.jpg [credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute]
Cassini NAC RGB [ Ссылка ] [credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/G. Ugarkovic]
Titan [ Ссылка ]#/media/File:Titan2005.jpg [credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute]
Titan’s Nile River [ Ссылка ] [credit: NASA/JPL–Caltech/ASI]
Lakes [ Ссылка ] [credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/USGS]
Enceladus [ Ссылка ] [credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute]
Iapetus Ridge [ Ссылка ] [credit: NASA (Cassini probe), Matt McIrvin (image mosaic)]
Hyperion [ Ссылка ] [credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute]
Saturn eclipse mosaic [ Ссылка ] [credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute]
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