Saturn is the planet that is larger and probably the most beautiful in the blinding sun of our family. Surrounded by millions of collapse , sparkling , icy moons and 62 known moons , Saturn is famous for its beautiful remote control of the ring system. Over the years , the age and origin of Saturn's ring system is a source of great debate among planetary scientists . In December 2013, a team of scientists , using data collected circling Saturn - Cassini NASA has strong evidence that the theory that the rings of Saturn bears probably about 4.4 billion years ago formed - shortly after Saturn itself was born .
For years, some researchers argue that the rings of Saturn system is relatively young, while others claim that the fused ring long ago, about the same time a lot and most of the cold moon of the giant planet .
Saturn and Jupiter is a gas giant duo of our solar system. Both live in the rural regions of our solar system and is largely made of deep shell of gas -tight. Some planetary scientists believe that these two large planets that have not under their heavy gas a solid core layer. However, scientists have theorized that the planets Jupiter and Saturn really put quite small, solid core beneath their products hidden , storm surges and heavy gas cover. Two inmates giant outer limits of our solar system are Uranus and Neptune. Uranus and Neptune is " ice giants " , there is a large terrace of rock and ice , secreted under an atmosphere of dense gases - are not as thick as they are part of a real gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. Uranus and Neptune are huge - but it is smaller than Jupiter and Saturn.
Enchanting, beguiling Saturn ring system is a collection of millions of bits of ice particles whose size ranges from cool to large blocks as small office building smoking. This small vortices interact strudel frozen objects with each other and fall in the beautiful dance - and they are also influenced by the magnetosphere of their home planet . Magnetosphere is the magnetic influence of the planets . Small objects are icy even under the influence of Saturn's moons more .
Lanyards are a very wide but strangely thin and sensitive , very finely than 250,000 kilometers across - but less than ten thousand meters! Historically, the origin and the age of the ring was a mystery . Some planetary scientists suspect that the rings are "young" 100 million years , while others than the ring to be a very old structure - as old as our solar system !
The ring system of Saturn has five main components of G , F, rings A, B and C , which are set innermost outermost . This system is, however, a little more complex for a clean reality of the situation . The main parts of which are subdivided into thousands of separate fine grinding. Rings A , B, and C are easy to see and very spacious. Unfortunately, the F and G rings are very thin , delicate, and therefore very difficult to detect. There is also a large gap . Between rings A and B rings , called the Cassini division
Rings and strange, difficult month
On 1 July 2004, NASA's Cassini spacecraft entered the orbit of Saturn and launch great pictures and revealing beautiful planet , many months , and a very light ring. Although by far the planet Saturn seems calm, tranquil Cassini show that the surface is very confusing. In fact, Cassini successfully the "big spring storm " picture completed to wave Saturn in the spring of 2011. NASA discovery of the round , this great tempest 25 October 2012. Intense storm clouds large overall size of the Earth !
Cassini can also see strange objects , dancing around the ring , which leads to a moon of Saturn talent!
In December , 2013, Dr. Carl Murray of Queen Mary University of London and his team have pictures of SaturnmondPrometheus small , acquired by the Cassini orbiter seen . This removed 15 April 2013 image , they saw an unexpected distortion of ring A - the big, bright outer rings Saturn has .
" I've never seen anything like it on the edge of the ring A ," Dr. Murray said at a meeting in December 2013 by the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, California.
Sifting through the first ring A picture that Dr. Murray and colleagues found 107 images of the same abuses taken since June 2012 . This may indicate the presence of strange dance around the moon fell in a field. This strange disease probably by invisible objects , which causes swirl around ice loops. This quiet, perhaps to show that Dr. Murray and his team may have seen the birth of small, icy moon.
Dr. Murray called strange object , resulting in a distortion of the ring A, " Peggy " , in honor of his mother -in-law . This is because it is the first observation of a strange small object on his 80th Birthday analyzed. " Peggy " may be born months in the process of pulling ring in ring A lucky.
We can not know his fate " Peggy " because Dr. Murray has not a distortion of the image , then the ring A is - is it possible neonatal patches were destroyed in the collision. However, it is also possible that the moon has become a potential for deviating too far from the ring now observable . " Peggy " is less than one kilometer wide , so that when it is removed from the ring A, it can be proved too small for the camera Cassini .
Previous models have shown that beautiful rings of Saturn can also be a decision this month. Icy on the outer edge of the ring to expand and keep be kept in a relatively large object under the influence of their own gravity . Moon newborn , then to be free and independent satellite parents walk - beautiful planet .
Although it is difficult to understand , " Peggy " has not reviewed , he won a place in the history of planetary research . Cassini team plans to look more like dancing around the edges of Saturn's rings - in the hope that recognition of potential icy objects within a month after birth.
Antique rings of Saturn !
At the meeting in December 2013 by the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco , planetary scientists to present their research shows that the rings of Saturn are the old structures - as old as Saturn itself !
New Cassini measurements mean that the " main ring is [very ] be long, hundreds of millions of years," said Dr. Sascha Kempf, University of Colorado at Boulder , at the hearing .
Saturn's ring system is mainly composed of water ice , but there is also a small amount of rock material from micrometeorites bombing. Dr. Kempf and his team used instruments Cassini Cosmic Dust Analyzer to determine the frequency , fly to the very small particles in the Saturn system.
Researchers have found that the planet only a small amount of dust in contact with the ice rings. In fact, what they found that the pure 0000000000000000001 gram of dust per cubic centimeter jitter - insects around the room every second - a distance of five to 20 Saturn radii of the planet surrounded great! After the measurement, the attack team dusty planetary scientists is surprisingly low , then it is determined that the ring was probably hanging around Saturn is old 4400000000 years.
"It would be with long ring system," Dr. Kempf said at the meeting in December 2013, the American Geophysical Union.
The team also has planetary scientists around the orbit of a large number of particles to reconstruct short breaks . They found that most of them probably in the distant Kuiper Belt , a ring dance, originated icy, comet like objects flying around our star beyond the orbit of Neptune blue planet ice giants . However, it is possible that a part of the dance of the dust fell against more distant Oort Cloud - a sphere of comets as icy bodies believed that our entire solar system surrounds . This is the space between the stars is - Some items can also be migrated dusty to the family of our sun from interstellar space .
Fly original remote, dust off to dance around Saturn, so it can be observed at very different than in the vicinity of dust on our planet and in other areas of the solar system . The largest planet in our solar system Easy - This condition is usually associated with the attraction of a gas giant Jupiter.
"Jupiter is essentially splitting of the solar system relative to the dust in the internal and external systems ," said Dr. Kempf Press 13 December 2013.
For systems that help scientists like to understand the physical and chemical evolution of our entire solar system by a careful observation of the planet. Study the development requires not only an understanding , a month or a single ring , but put the picture together - weaving interlacing, son secret in order to show the relationship between these organizations.
Judith E. Braffman - Miller is a writer and astronomer , whose articles have been published in various journals , magazines and newspapers since 1981. Although he writes on a variety of subjects , especially , she enjoys writing about astronomy because it is his ability to communicate with other wonders of this area. His first book, " Strands , ash and smoke , " will be published shortly .
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Saturn is probably the most beautiful planet in our Sun's lovely family
Saturn is the smaller of the two giant flat gas in the outer regions of our solar system , away from the light and warmth of our friendly star bright gold , the Sun. The larger of the two gas giants Jupiter , which is also the largest planet in our solar system . Some researchers believe that the two gas giants have not hidden under her huge and heavy shells of gas solid surfaces , even if others think they are likely to contain relatively small cores of rock - glacial material. The two other principal inhabitants of the outer limits of our solar family Uranus and Neptune, as ice - Giant are classified because they were not buried large veins ice under their heavy atmosphere on a massive scale , almost as heavy as are gaseous atmospheres, the two giants of waste gases .
Saturn is the most beautiful planet in our solar beautiful family , with its beautiful magical ring system , icy moons and a myriad of bright moons dancing and tumbling somersault inside and outside rings. One of Saturn's moons , Titan is the second largest moon in the Solar System, after Jupiter's Ganymede . Wrapped in a thick fog orange titanium is known for its frozen methane clouds and hydrocarbon seas and lakes . Titan 's thick atmosphere concealment very similar to those thought to have been present in the primordial Earth's atmosphere all wonderful chilled soup of compounds. Dense atmosphere of Titan - which is much denser than the Earth's atmosphere - mainly containing nitrogen , like that of our own planet. But Titan's atmosphere also contains significantly higher percentages of these so -called " chemical smog " , such as methane and ethane . Smog on Titan is extremely dense liquid that actually rains " gasoline as " the surface of this strange world. Indeed, some of the chemicals found in Titan's atmosphere , may suggest that life on the basis of simple and primitive methane ( methanogens ) living with this really strange moon.
Until 2004, no spacecraft visited Saturn in over two decades. Pioneer 11 was the first close-up of Saturn broken when it flew by in 1979 , Voyager 1 took his appointment over a year later, in August 1981 and Voyager 2 took his short but extremely productive meeting. Finally, on 1 July 2004 was Cassini NASA orbiting Saturn, and began to beautiful photos.
Saturn has 62 known moons . Most of them are very small, worldlets ice . 11 In June 2004, shortly before arrival at Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft flying only sound - at an altitude of 2,000 miles - beyond the very small icy moon Phoebe . Phoebe is a crater on the planet rotates around its rear worldlet - indicating that it has detected an object that was born somewhere else, and not an original member of the Saturn family.
The most natural satellites of Saturn and ice dancing very small moons. But the biggest icy moons , medium revolve around their giant planet with rings in a beautiful and mysterious dance. The largest of the icy moons Rhea , the second largest moon of Saturn by the strange world that is titanium. Iapetus , the third largest moon of Saturn, with two faces, with a side of bright shiny highly reflective ice is made , and the other dark, non-reflective , a blackened spot color ice pristine white . Iapetus is larger than Mimas and Enceladus . There is a huge impact crater on the moon Mimas , which itself as an outstanding feature of what appears to be a bombed evil world is littered with craters . The large crater Herschel on the Moon 400 km was a drum room - fabric made from rock , ice , or both, are very close to spray the entire small moon came excavated . Another icy moon Enceladus is an enchanting world , 500 km in diameter , which is thought to be an ocean in the global area under its port frozen crust . Where there is liquid water is always possible - but not the promise - of life. Enceladus has the highest albedo of any other moon in our solar system. This means it has the most glaring reflective light surface. It also has a very active geology, where it appeared almost devoid of craters, because they are constantly on emissions of spouting geysers , glacial officials of fresh snow , which keeps the surface of the small sparkling and smooth new moon.
Research 19 Submitted in October 2012 , took place at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society , the Ministry of Planetenwissenschaftenin Reno, Nevada, has proposed a causal relationship between the seven sister moons - Titan and icy moons six medium Saturn. The researchers suggest that the seven moons violent origin and was created when a few much larger moons crashed into each other to give rise to the misty, moisty moon Titan.
According to this theory , the system of Saturn began with a family of several relatively large moons , similar to the four Galilean moons of Jupiter - Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto . However, the strange and violent things happened in the Saturn system , which led its large moons on a collision course with destiny. According to the theory , there was a little dramatic moon mergers , the formation of titanium , which we know today - but it was also quite a number of moon - things still left to create collisions of cold medium-sized satellites - Mimas , Iapetus , Enceladus, Tethys, Dione , Rhea and !
"We believe that the giant planets have their satellites way the sun have their planet, grow like little solar systems and ending with a final confrontation " phase, the lead author , Dr. Erik Asphaug of the University of California at Santa Cruz , said in a statement to the press October 18, 2012 to .
He added , "In our model for the Saturn system , we propose that Titan grew in a couple of great impact of a combination of the mass of the colliding bodies , while putting a small family of medium-sized moons . "
Such mergers and moon collisions training are not uncommon . For example, the main theory explains the origin of the large moon of the Earth , says he was born before there are about 4.5 billion years ago, when a proto- planet called Theia size of Mars by astronomers , is collided with our planet. Just as our moon is geologically identical coat, the younger sister of six Saturn's icy moons are all similar in composition titanium coat of ice, researchers announced in October 2012 .
"Our model explains the diversity of these lenses - . Moons and submit proof of their very active and dynamic geology It also explains a disturbing fact that a giant impact on Titan would give a large eccentricity " Asphaug continued to explain to the press October 18, 2012 .
Jupiter Saturn is surrounded by more than 60 known moons . Many of them are tiny moons, measuring only a few miles across , and are probably asteroids or minor planets captured - or shattered remains .
Asphaug and co- author Dr Andreas Reufer the University of Bern in Switzerland, have developed new sophisticated computer simulations Riesenwirkungsmodellmit . They found that mergers between the moons of Jupiter-sized Galilean moons - size 1,940 miles ( Europe) 3 range of 271 miles above ( Ganymede ) - would break things aside from the outer layers of moons collide. This frozen material then spiral arms that would merge to create means by Saturn's icy moons gravity.
Moon - mergers may occur here very long - or perhaps recently . Mergers have triggered gravitational perturbations caused by the migration of the giant planets like Uranus or Neptune , the researchers told the press in October 2012 .
" What makes the Saturn system , so beautiful and unique could his youth. While we have not played a period of preferred scenario of origin time , it may happen recently , when something is to destabilize the system Saturn , triggering the collision mergers formed the Titan , "said Asphaug .
The researchers then explained that his scenario is the strength , the forecast for the tortured , large hazy moon Titan are formed , the icy moons averages are made , and how she began to turn quickly piece of material ice loaded. Of valuable information planetary scientist, what happens in this mysterious outer region of our solar system reveal small moons could provide - and when it happened .
Seven moons orbiting Saturn sister as she twirls in the field of giant planets so far from the light and heat of the Sun. Families have the secret of his mysterious origins very well maintained - but they begin to reveal their hidden past .
I am a writer and astronomer , whose articles have been published in various magazines , newspapers and magazines since 1981. Although I wrote about a variety of subjects , I especially like writing about astronomy because it gives me the opportunity to communicate with others the many wonders of my domain. My first book, " wisps , ashes and smoke , " will be published shortly .
Saturn is the most beautiful planet in our solar beautiful family , with its beautiful magical ring system , icy moons and a myriad of bright moons dancing and tumbling somersault inside and outside rings. One of Saturn's moons , Titan is the second largest moon in the Solar System, after Jupiter's Ganymede . Wrapped in a thick fog orange titanium is known for its frozen methane clouds and hydrocarbon seas and lakes . Titan 's thick atmosphere concealment very similar to those thought to have been present in the primordial Earth's atmosphere all wonderful chilled soup of compounds. Dense atmosphere of Titan - which is much denser than the Earth's atmosphere - mainly containing nitrogen , like that of our own planet. But Titan's atmosphere also contains significantly higher percentages of these so -called " chemical smog " , such as methane and ethane . Smog on Titan is extremely dense liquid that actually rains " gasoline as " the surface of this strange world. Indeed, some of the chemicals found in Titan's atmosphere , may suggest that life on the basis of simple and primitive methane ( methanogens ) living with this really strange moon.
Until 2004, no spacecraft visited Saturn in over two decades. Pioneer 11 was the first close-up of Saturn broken when it flew by in 1979 , Voyager 1 took his appointment over a year later, in August 1981 and Voyager 2 took his short but extremely productive meeting. Finally, on 1 July 2004 was Cassini NASA orbiting Saturn, and began to beautiful photos.
Saturn has 62 known moons . Most of them are very small, worldlets ice . 11 In June 2004, shortly before arrival at Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft flying only sound - at an altitude of 2,000 miles - beyond the very small icy moon Phoebe . Phoebe is a crater on the planet rotates around its rear worldlet - indicating that it has detected an object that was born somewhere else, and not an original member of the Saturn family.
The most natural satellites of Saturn and ice dancing very small moons. But the biggest icy moons , medium revolve around their giant planet with rings in a beautiful and mysterious dance. The largest of the icy moons Rhea , the second largest moon of Saturn by the strange world that is titanium. Iapetus , the third largest moon of Saturn, with two faces, with a side of bright shiny highly reflective ice is made , and the other dark, non-reflective , a blackened spot color ice pristine white . Iapetus is larger than Mimas and Enceladus . There is a huge impact crater on the moon Mimas , which itself as an outstanding feature of what appears to be a bombed evil world is littered with craters . The large crater Herschel on the Moon 400 km was a drum room - fabric made from rock , ice , or both, are very close to spray the entire small moon came excavated . Another icy moon Enceladus is an enchanting world , 500 km in diameter , which is thought to be an ocean in the global area under its port frozen crust . Where there is liquid water is always possible - but not the promise - of life. Enceladus has the highest albedo of any other moon in our solar system. This means it has the most glaring reflective light surface. It also has a very active geology, where it appeared almost devoid of craters, because they are constantly on emissions of spouting geysers , glacial officials of fresh snow , which keeps the surface of the small sparkling and smooth new moon.
Research 19 Submitted in October 2012 , took place at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society , the Ministry of Planetenwissenschaftenin Reno, Nevada, has proposed a causal relationship between the seven sister moons - Titan and icy moons six medium Saturn. The researchers suggest that the seven moons violent origin and was created when a few much larger moons crashed into each other to give rise to the misty, moisty moon Titan.
According to this theory , the system of Saturn began with a family of several relatively large moons , similar to the four Galilean moons of Jupiter - Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto . However, the strange and violent things happened in the Saturn system , which led its large moons on a collision course with destiny. According to the theory , there was a little dramatic moon mergers , the formation of titanium , which we know today - but it was also quite a number of moon - things still left to create collisions of cold medium-sized satellites - Mimas , Iapetus , Enceladus, Tethys, Dione , Rhea and !
"We believe that the giant planets have their satellites way the sun have their planet, grow like little solar systems and ending with a final confrontation " phase, the lead author , Dr. Erik Asphaug of the University of California at Santa Cruz , said in a statement to the press October 18, 2012 to .
He added , "In our model for the Saturn system , we propose that Titan grew in a couple of great impact of a combination of the mass of the colliding bodies , while putting a small family of medium-sized moons . "
Such mergers and moon collisions training are not uncommon . For example, the main theory explains the origin of the large moon of the Earth , says he was born before there are about 4.5 billion years ago, when a proto- planet called Theia size of Mars by astronomers , is collided with our planet. Just as our moon is geologically identical coat, the younger sister of six Saturn's icy moons are all similar in composition titanium coat of ice, researchers announced in October 2012 .
"Our model explains the diversity of these lenses - . Moons and submit proof of their very active and dynamic geology It also explains a disturbing fact that a giant impact on Titan would give a large eccentricity " Asphaug continued to explain to the press October 18, 2012 .
Jupiter Saturn is surrounded by more than 60 known moons . Many of them are tiny moons, measuring only a few miles across , and are probably asteroids or minor planets captured - or shattered remains .
Asphaug and co- author Dr Andreas Reufer the University of Bern in Switzerland, have developed new sophisticated computer simulations Riesenwirkungsmodellmit . They found that mergers between the moons of Jupiter-sized Galilean moons - size 1,940 miles ( Europe) 3 range of 271 miles above ( Ganymede ) - would break things aside from the outer layers of moons collide. This frozen material then spiral arms that would merge to create means by Saturn's icy moons gravity.
Moon - mergers may occur here very long - or perhaps recently . Mergers have triggered gravitational perturbations caused by the migration of the giant planets like Uranus or Neptune , the researchers told the press in October 2012 .
" What makes the Saturn system , so beautiful and unique could his youth. While we have not played a period of preferred scenario of origin time , it may happen recently , when something is to destabilize the system Saturn , triggering the collision mergers formed the Titan , "said Asphaug .
The researchers then explained that his scenario is the strength , the forecast for the tortured , large hazy moon Titan are formed , the icy moons averages are made , and how she began to turn quickly piece of material ice loaded. Of valuable information planetary scientist, what happens in this mysterious outer region of our solar system reveal small moons could provide - and when it happened .
Seven moons orbiting Saturn sister as she twirls in the field of giant planets so far from the light and heat of the Sun. Families have the secret of his mysterious origins very well maintained - but they begin to reveal their hidden past .
I am a writer and astronomer , whose articles have been published in various magazines , newspapers and magazines since 1981. Although I wrote about a variety of subjects , I especially like writing about astronomy because it gives me the opportunity to communicate with others the many wonders of my domain. My first book, " wisps , ashes and smoke , " will be published shortly .
The Giant Planet In Solar System - Saturn Planet
Saturn is a giant planet, and probably the most beautiful charming family of our sun. Surrounded by a myriad of drums, sparkling , icy moons and 62 known moons , Saturn is famous for its beautiful rings gauze system. For many years , the age and origin of Saturn Ringsystemist the source of much debate among planetary scientists. In December 2013, a team of scientists collected using data from the Cassini Saturn surrounding NASA has strong evidence for the theory that the rings of Saturn are likely to be formed provided about 4.4 billion years ago - was born shortly after the Saturn itself .
For years, some researchers have argued that the system of Saturn's rings is a relatively young , while others argued that the rings have long ago brought together around the same time that many and mostly ice moons of the giant planets .
Saturn and Jupiter are the duo gas giant in our solar system . Both live in the outer regions of the solar system , and are largely of deep dense gas envelopes together . Some scientists believe that global two giant planets are not under their heavy gaseous layers have solid cores . , Theorizing , but other planetary scientists that Jupiter and Saturn are actually hidden only host relatively small solid cores under her churning stormy and heavy blankets of hot gas . The other two giants inhabitants of the outer limits of our solar system are Uranus and Neptune. Uranus and Neptune are " ice giants " , with large cores of rock and ice , secreted in dense gas atmospheres - which is approximately as thick as the are not obsessed with the real gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. Uranus and Neptune are huge - but it is smaller than Jupiter and Saturn.
Enchanting and fascinating system of Saturn's rings is a collection of countless pieces of ice , the size of the smoke particle size icy boulders as small office building. Interact These small , circular , circular icy objects with each other and cavort in a beautiful dance - and they are also influenced by the magnetosphere of their great Mother Earth. The magnetosphere is the region of the magnetic influence of a planet. These small icy objects are also under the influence of the largest moons of Saturn.
Key rings form a very wide but strangely thin gauze extended ethereal than 250,000 kilometers through - but less than ten hundred meters deep! Historically, the origin and age of the rings were mysterious. Some planetary scientists have suggested that the rings are a "young " age of 100 million years , while others than the rings are very old structures - as old as our solar system !
The Saturn system of rings sports five main components: G , F, rings A, B , and C, which are counted by the extreme innermost . However, this system is a little too clean for the complex reality of the situation . Primary business areas will be divided into thousands of separate gossamer rings. Rings A, B and C are easy to observe , and are extremely great. Unfortunately, the F and G rings are very thin, gauze and therefore very difficult to detect. There is also a large gap between ring A and ring B , called the Cassini division .
Rings and a strange , rebellious Moon
On 1 July 2004, NASA 's Cassini spacecraft Saturn completed orbit and began remarkable and insightful images of this beautiful planet , its moons and rings countless ethereal take . Although by far Saturn seems to be a peaceful planet , Cassini has shown that this area is very quiet misleading. In fact, Cassini successfully completed interrupted the image of the " Great Spring Storm" , the Saturn in the spring of 2011. NASA announced the discovery of these vortices , huge storm , 25 October 2012 order . The storm showed a huge cloud cover as large as the whole earth !
Cassini may have discovered a strange object , dancing around in the ring , with notes of Moon talent decision Saturn!
In December 2013 Dr. Carl Murray of Queen Mary University of London and his team looked for pictures SaturnmondPrometheus small , obtained from the Cassini orbiter. In a picture taken 15 April 2013 , she discovered an unexpected distortion of ring A - which is the outermost shiny , thick rings of Saturn.
"I have never seen such a thing on the edge of the ring A ," Dr. Murray said at a meeting in December 2013 by the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, California.
Seven determined by the previous images of the ring A, Dr. Murray and colleagues , over 107 photos of the same distortion since June 2012 . This may be the presence of a foreign , rebellious dance of the moon around the ring A. These strange distortion is likely to swirl through an invisible object around in loops ice caused . This area is calmed down since , which may suggest that Dr. Murray and his team were able to observe the birth of a small , icy moon.
Dr. Murray called to distort the strange object a ring, " Peggy " , in honor of his mother -in-law . This is because it is the first observation of the strange little object of his 80th Birthday analyzed. " Peggy " could be a moon born into the process in the ring A, happily pulled the edge of the ring .
Alas, we will never know true destiny " Peggy " because Dr. Murray does not correspond with the distortions in the following pictures of the A ring - it is possible neonatal Blob was destroyed in a collision. However, it is also possible that a potential moon traveled too far from the ring now observable. " Peggy " is less than one kilometer wide , so that when it is removed from the ring A , it is likely to recognize too small for the Cassini cameras.
The first models showed that beautiful rings of Saturn moon could also serve as decision-makers. Icy material at the outer edge of a ring and can be kept together in a relatively large object under the influence of its own gravity , clump together . The newborn moon could then move away to be his beautiful mother earth a free and independent satellites.
While the elusive " Peggy " is never seen again , a place he won in the history of planetary research . The Cassini team plans to dance like this to look at the edges of the rings of Saturn - in the hope of detecting potential icy objects in the process of Moon at birth.
Antique rings of Saturn !
In December 2013 Reply San Francisco at the American Geophysical Union , planetary scientists presented their study shows that the rings of Saturn are the old structures - as old as Saturn itself !
New Cassini measurements mean that " key rings are [very ] old instead of hundreds of millions of years," said Dr. Sascha Kempf, University of Colorado at Boulder , at the hearing .
Huge Saturn's ring system composed mainly of water ice there , but there are also small amounts of rock material from micrometeorites derived bombing . Dr. Kempf and his team , the Cosmic Dust Analyzer instrument Cassini to determine how often these tiny particles flying through the Saturn system.
Planetary scientists have found that only a small amount of dust material in contact with the ice rings. In fact, what they found was that simple, 0000000000000000001 gram of dust per centimeter cube jitter -bugs surrounding space every second - at a distance of five to 20 Saturn radii of the giant ringed planet ! After the measurement, the surprisingly low rate of dusty invasion , then determined the team of planetary scientists that the rings around Saturn were probably hang 4400000000 years.
"It would be a system of old core be incompatible ," Dr. Kempf said at the meeting in December 2013, the American Geophysical Union.
The team of planetary scientists continue the orbits of many of these small particles to reconstruct tumbling. They found that the vast majority of them probably originated in the Kuiper Belt at a distance of a ring dance, ice comet like objects flying around our star beyond the orbit of the ice giant planet Neptune blue. However, it is possible that some of these dust particles fell out of step even further away Oort Cloud - a sphere -shaped organs comet ice is assumed that surrounded our entire solar system. Some dusty things can also be the family of our sun emigrated from interstellar space - that is , the space between the stars.
The ancient origins of the flying dust , drums, dancing around in the vicinity of Saturn , making it quite different from the around our own planet and other parts of the inner solar system observed dust. Simply the largest planet in our solar system - This is generally attributed to the huge enormous attraction of the gas giant Jupiter.
"Jupiter is essentially splitting of the solar system relative to the dust in an indoor and an outdoor system," said Dr. Kempf Press 13 December 2013.
Careful observation of the Saturnian system helps planetary scientists , the physical and chemical evolution of our entire solar system to understand. The study of this development requires not only an understanding of a lonely , lonely moon or ring , but put the whole picture together - weaving together the intertwining mysterious son , to show the relationship between them.
Judith E. Braffman -Miller is a writer and astronomer , whose articles have been published in various journals , magazines and newspapers since 1981. Although she writes on a variety of topics , especially she enjoys writing about astronomy because it him. Opportunity to communicate the other wonders of the region His first book, " wisps , ashes and smoke " , will be published .
For years, some researchers have argued that the system of Saturn's rings is a relatively young , while others argued that the rings have long ago brought together around the same time that many and mostly ice moons of the giant planets .
Saturn and Jupiter are the duo gas giant in our solar system . Both live in the outer regions of the solar system , and are largely of deep dense gas envelopes together . Some scientists believe that global two giant planets are not under their heavy gaseous layers have solid cores . , Theorizing , but other planetary scientists that Jupiter and Saturn are actually hidden only host relatively small solid cores under her churning stormy and heavy blankets of hot gas . The other two giants inhabitants of the outer limits of our solar system are Uranus and Neptune. Uranus and Neptune are " ice giants " , with large cores of rock and ice , secreted in dense gas atmospheres - which is approximately as thick as the are not obsessed with the real gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. Uranus and Neptune are huge - but it is smaller than Jupiter and Saturn.
Enchanting and fascinating system of Saturn's rings is a collection of countless pieces of ice , the size of the smoke particle size icy boulders as small office building. Interact These small , circular , circular icy objects with each other and cavort in a beautiful dance - and they are also influenced by the magnetosphere of their great Mother Earth. The magnetosphere is the region of the magnetic influence of a planet. These small icy objects are also under the influence of the largest moons of Saturn.
Key rings form a very wide but strangely thin gauze extended ethereal than 250,000 kilometers through - but less than ten hundred meters deep! Historically, the origin and age of the rings were mysterious. Some planetary scientists have suggested that the rings are a "young " age of 100 million years , while others than the rings are very old structures - as old as our solar system !
The Saturn system of rings sports five main components: G , F, rings A, B , and C, which are counted by the extreme innermost . However, this system is a little too clean for the complex reality of the situation . Primary business areas will be divided into thousands of separate gossamer rings. Rings A, B and C are easy to observe , and are extremely great. Unfortunately, the F and G rings are very thin, gauze and therefore very difficult to detect. There is also a large gap between ring A and ring B , called the Cassini division .
Rings and a strange , rebellious Moon
On 1 July 2004, NASA 's Cassini spacecraft Saturn completed orbit and began remarkable and insightful images of this beautiful planet , its moons and rings countless ethereal take . Although by far Saturn seems to be a peaceful planet , Cassini has shown that this area is very quiet misleading. In fact, Cassini successfully completed interrupted the image of the " Great Spring Storm" , the Saturn in the spring of 2011. NASA announced the discovery of these vortices , huge storm , 25 October 2012 order . The storm showed a huge cloud cover as large as the whole earth !
Cassini may have discovered a strange object , dancing around in the ring , with notes of Moon talent decision Saturn!
In December 2013 Dr. Carl Murray of Queen Mary University of London and his team looked for pictures SaturnmondPrometheus small , obtained from the Cassini orbiter. In a picture taken 15 April 2013 , she discovered an unexpected distortion of ring A - which is the outermost shiny , thick rings of Saturn.
"I have never seen such a thing on the edge of the ring A ," Dr. Murray said at a meeting in December 2013 by the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, California.
Seven determined by the previous images of the ring A, Dr. Murray and colleagues , over 107 photos of the same distortion since June 2012 . This may be the presence of a foreign , rebellious dance of the moon around the ring A. These strange distortion is likely to swirl through an invisible object around in loops ice caused . This area is calmed down since , which may suggest that Dr. Murray and his team were able to observe the birth of a small , icy moon.
Dr. Murray called to distort the strange object a ring, " Peggy " , in honor of his mother -in-law . This is because it is the first observation of the strange little object of his 80th Birthday analyzed. " Peggy " could be a moon born into the process in the ring A, happily pulled the edge of the ring .
Alas, we will never know true destiny " Peggy " because Dr. Murray does not correspond with the distortions in the following pictures of the A ring - it is possible neonatal Blob was destroyed in a collision. However, it is also possible that a potential moon traveled too far from the ring now observable. " Peggy " is less than one kilometer wide , so that when it is removed from the ring A , it is likely to recognize too small for the Cassini cameras.
The first models showed that beautiful rings of Saturn moon could also serve as decision-makers. Icy material at the outer edge of a ring and can be kept together in a relatively large object under the influence of its own gravity , clump together . The newborn moon could then move away to be his beautiful mother earth a free and independent satellites.
While the elusive " Peggy " is never seen again , a place he won in the history of planetary research . The Cassini team plans to dance like this to look at the edges of the rings of Saturn - in the hope of detecting potential icy objects in the process of Moon at birth.
Antique rings of Saturn !
In December 2013 Reply San Francisco at the American Geophysical Union , planetary scientists presented their study shows that the rings of Saturn are the old structures - as old as Saturn itself !
New Cassini measurements mean that " key rings are [very ] old instead of hundreds of millions of years," said Dr. Sascha Kempf, University of Colorado at Boulder , at the hearing .
Huge Saturn's ring system composed mainly of water ice there , but there are also small amounts of rock material from micrometeorites derived bombing . Dr. Kempf and his team , the Cosmic Dust Analyzer instrument Cassini to determine how often these tiny particles flying through the Saturn system.
Planetary scientists have found that only a small amount of dust material in contact with the ice rings. In fact, what they found was that simple, 0000000000000000001 gram of dust per centimeter cube jitter -bugs surrounding space every second - at a distance of five to 20 Saturn radii of the giant ringed planet ! After the measurement, the surprisingly low rate of dusty invasion , then determined the team of planetary scientists that the rings around Saturn were probably hang 4400000000 years.
"It would be a system of old core be incompatible ," Dr. Kempf said at the meeting in December 2013, the American Geophysical Union.
The team of planetary scientists continue the orbits of many of these small particles to reconstruct tumbling. They found that the vast majority of them probably originated in the Kuiper Belt at a distance of a ring dance, ice comet like objects flying around our star beyond the orbit of the ice giant planet Neptune blue. However, it is possible that some of these dust particles fell out of step even further away Oort Cloud - a sphere -shaped organs comet ice is assumed that surrounded our entire solar system. Some dusty things can also be the family of our sun emigrated from interstellar space - that is , the space between the stars.
The ancient origins of the flying dust , drums, dancing around in the vicinity of Saturn , making it quite different from the around our own planet and other parts of the inner solar system observed dust. Simply the largest planet in our solar system - This is generally attributed to the huge enormous attraction of the gas giant Jupiter.
"Jupiter is essentially splitting of the solar system relative to the dust in an indoor and an outdoor system," said Dr. Kempf Press 13 December 2013.
Careful observation of the Saturnian system helps planetary scientists , the physical and chemical evolution of our entire solar system to understand. The study of this development requires not only an understanding of a lonely , lonely moon or ring , but put the whole picture together - weaving together the intertwining mysterious son , to show the relationship between them.
Judith E. Braffman -Miller is a writer and astronomer , whose articles have been published in various journals , magazines and newspapers since 1981. Although she writes on a variety of topics , especially she enjoys writing about astronomy because it him. Opportunity to communicate the other wonders of the region His first book, " wisps , ashes and smoke " , will be published .
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