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1 The (most noticeably) RiNged World…
Saturn

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3 Saturn = kronos/cronus (Chief of the Titans)

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7 Saturn has a lower (average) density than liquid water!
(…but I wouldn’t recommend the experiment below…)

8 How did the Cassini satellite end its mission on sept. 15, 2017?

9 Internal layers of planet saturn

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11 Saturn IS WARMED INTERALLY, BY…
…HELIUM “RAIN”!

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13 Saturn’s thick, high-ALTITUDE HAZE LAYER
OBSCURES ITS JUPITER-LIKE fEATURES…

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18 Saturn’s mysterious “polar vortex”
(…a hexagon on saturn?!)

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27 Dusty “Spokes” in Saturn’s Rings

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30 But What creates all of this fine-detailed ringlet structure?
…Interactions with saturn’s moons!

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33 Saturn’s Moon pan in the “encke gap”

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36 So, what’s going on here…?

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39 How does the moon mimas create the cassini division?
…it uses a 2:1 “Resonance”!


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