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 .
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