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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