ASTR 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Voyager 2, Correlation Does Not Imply Causation, Moons Of Saturn
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Lecture 10: the jovian planets (part ii): saturn. Have bright (made of ice) and gorgeous rings. Has the second largest volume (jupiter 1st). => oblate - have a big difference between the diameter of the equator and pole to pole (because they are made of gas). => earth is also an oblate planet but saturn is the most oblate. => second largest moon in the solar system. Tilted more than 90 degrees which creates the clockwise rotation. Visited by one spacecraft, the voyager 2. Has very pronounced seasons but very cold. Blue color because of the methane in the atmosphere. Fastest measured winds in the solar system. It has a large moon called triton. Also visited by voyager 2 when it was passing by. Has a moon called charon (1978) => about half the size of. In 2000, 4 moons were discovered (small moons): main moons of the solar system: 180 moons known in the solar system.
