Transcript Saturn Presentation

Saturn
A PowerPoint Presentation by Daniel
Knox
Saturn: The beginning
• Saturn was first spotted by the ancient
Greeks and was referred to as Cronus A
Greek God.
• Saturn is 9 times bigger than the Earth!
• Galileo was the first person to see the rings
of Saturn though his telescope. The first
site of the wonderful secret of Saturn
The Rings of Saturn
• Saturn's rings are mainly made of ice and
rocks of different sizes. Each orbiting the
planet like a miniature moon. The
impressive rings are very insubstantial,
possibly only one kilometer thick.
• Because Saturn is tilted on it’s axis we
occasionally pass through the plane of it’s
rings making them vanish from view.
The Moons of Saturn
• Saturn has many moons but the main ones
are Dione, Titan, Tethys and Enceladus. All
are made of rock and ice but none are the
size of the our moon.
Saturn: A ball of gas
• Saturn is mainly made of Methane and
Hydrogen gas.
• Underneath the ball of gas is the core which
is the same size of the core of the earth.
• Because Saturn is a ball of gas, if you find a
ocean big enough it will float in it.
Saturn’s orbit
• Saturn’s orbit around the sun takes 28.5
Earth years.
• Twice in it’s orbit the rings disappear from
our view.