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Titan’s surface has a temperature of minus 290 degrees, experts say.
Saturn's hexagon is a persistent approximately hexagonal cloud ... Cassini was also able to take a video of the hexagonal weather pattern while traveling at the same ...
Saturn is named after the Roman god of wealth and agriculture, who was the father of the god Jupiter.Its astronomical symbol has been traced back to the Greek Oxyrhynchus Papyri, where it can be seen to be a Greek kappa-rho ligature with a horizontal stroke, as an abbreviation for Κρονος (), the Greek name for the planet (). [35]
This means that the direction of incoming sunlight is driven almost entirely by Titan's day-night cycle and Saturn's year cycle. The day cycle on Titan lasts 15.9 Earth days, which is how long it takes Titan to orbit Saturn. Titan is tidally locked, so the same part of Titan always faces Saturn, and there is no separate "month" cycle.
On Sunday, Aug. 27, Saturn will reach opposition, the point in its orbit when it appears in the opposite part of the sky as the sun. As a result, the planet will shine all night long, rising in ...
Get your telescope ready in September, when Saturn will take center stage in the sky and shine brighter than at any other point in the year. The planet will reach opposition on Sept. 21, around ...
Saturn Electrostatic Discharges (also referred to as SEDs) are atmospheric lightning events in convective weather storms on Saturn that produce high frequency (HF) radio emissions (1-40 MHz). Terrestrial lighting events on Earth , in comparison, occur in the very low frequency (VLF) radio band, between 3 Hz and 30 kHz.
Saturn has been visible for late-night stargazers for most of the year, but in August, the planet will be visible all night long, as long as it isn't cloudy. On Monday, Aug. 2, Saturn will ...