to be perfectly honest with you Doug
if outer space is your thing I think you
would be much happier with one of our
Saturn cruises everybody raves about
them it’s literally one of the coolest
planets in our solar system figuratively
so – welcome to watchmojo.com the five
most fascinating things you probably
didn’t know about Saturn you can find a
bath tub big enough and fill it with
water Saturn would float but it would
leave a ring number five summer on
Saturn last eight years given that
Saturn is 1.4 billion kilometers from
the Sun while Earth is a mere 149
million kilometers away a year on Saturn
is equivalent to 29.4 earth years Saturn
does have an axial tilt similar to ours
meaning that it is also subject to
theoretical seasons however a single
season on Saturn lasts between 7 & 8
years an 8 year summer might be
desirable but just imagine the
comparable winter that follows
that being said not every unit of time
is longer on Saturn it spins with
greater speed on its axis compared to
earth which means that one day only
lasts around ten and a half earth hours
number four Saturn blows a perfect
six-sided hurricane 60 miles deep that
could swallow four earths Saturn is
comprised entirely of gas and is the
least dense planet in the solar system
it’s made up of 94 percent hydrogen six
percent helium and trace amounts of
methane but that doesn’t mean it’s a
light and airy place researchers think
that friction with the slower clouds on
either side of it creates Eddie’s mini
storms that push the jet stream into a
wave-like shape as it goes around
what Saturn lacks in density it more
than makes up for with wind speed the
weather patterns on a planet are
incredibly extreme winds can gust over a
thousand miles per hour storms can last
for months and it’s lightning is up to a
thousand times more powerful than
Earth’s pick up the gigawatts shocking
isn’t it number three there could be
life on one of Saturn’s many moons no
one’s on tight now moon of Saturn or on
me
Space Station getting ready to go NASA
says that Saturn has 62 confirmed moons
53 of which are named with the majority
less than 50 kilometers across of all
the things going on around Saturn Titan
might be the most exciting of all the
aptly named Titan is the largest however
dwarfing even the planet Mercury in
terms of size Titan is the only moon in
the solar system to possess its own
atmosphere meaning researchers are
intent upon exploring it the Titan
Saturn system mission will be launched
in 2020 at a cost of 2.5 billion dollars
Cassini a NASA spacecraft will deliver
Huygens to the vicinity of Saturn and
aim it towards Titan the cassini-huygens
mission is already underway though
investigating Titan and another moon
Enceladus Enceladus boasts an icy
ostensibly barren landscape riddled with
deep canyons dubbed tiger stripes the
probe is sweeping close to the surface
of Enceladus in search of atmospheric
anomalies and signs of alien life
Enceladus is mostly made of ice beneath
which scientists believe there could
exist
some kind of alien ocean this lends
itself to the exciting possibility that
organisms similar to those that thrive
in our own deep oceans near volcanic
vents exceeding carbon dioxide and
hydrogen sulfide might exist on
Enceladus number two humans could fly on
Titan technically speaking if mankind
ever found itself on Saturn’s largest
moon Titan then it could strap on a set
of wings and take to the skies
a combination of high air density and
low gravity on Titan means if you ran
fast enough you could take off students
in England have estimated that you’d
have to clock a ground speed of 11
meters per second before flapping your
arms around which might be tough
considering Usain Bolt runs only
marginally quicker at 12 meters per
second and if you ever did a cheap
flight you do best not to soar too close
to Saturn itself the atmospheric
pressure of the planet is a hundred
times greater than Earth’s strong enough
to turn liquid into gas and then crush a
human being instantly number one
Saturn’s rings will one day disappear
though it isn’t actually the only planet
with rings Jupiter Neptune and Uranus
also have them Saturn’s rings are easily
the biggest and best example of the
phenomena in our solar system but they
won’t be around forever
like the icebergs the Rings are
constantly changing scientists predict
that over time the Rings which are just
twenty meters thick in some areas and
are made of bits of ice and rock will
either expand outwards gradually flowing
away from the planet or Elsa come to
Saturn’s gravitational force and pull
inwards makes this magnificent crown
jewel of the solar system at present the
ring stretch around 120,000 kilometres
from the planet itself however and their
disbanding is not expected for millions
of years so have these facts inspired
you to go telescope shopping I’m not
interested in Saturn for more
out-of-this-world top 10s and will
disappear someday top 5s be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com Saturn very
cool
if outer space is your thing I think you
would be much happier with one of our
Saturn cruises everybody raves about
them it’s literally one of the coolest
planets in our solar system figuratively
so – welcome to watchmojo.com the five
most fascinating things you probably
didn’t know about Saturn you can find a
bath tub big enough and fill it with
water Saturn would float but it would
leave a ring number five summer on
Saturn last eight years given that
Saturn is 1.4 billion kilometers from
the Sun while Earth is a mere 149
million kilometers away a year on Saturn
is equivalent to 29.4 earth years Saturn
does have an axial tilt similar to ours
meaning that it is also subject to
theoretical seasons however a single
season on Saturn lasts between 7 & 8
years an 8 year summer might be
desirable but just imagine the
comparable winter that follows
that being said not every unit of time
is longer on Saturn it spins with
greater speed on its axis compared to
earth which means that one day only
lasts around ten and a half earth hours
number four Saturn blows a perfect
six-sided hurricane 60 miles deep that
could swallow four earths Saturn is
comprised entirely of gas and is the
least dense planet in the solar system
it’s made up of 94 percent hydrogen six
percent helium and trace amounts of
methane but that doesn’t mean it’s a
light and airy place researchers think
that friction with the slower clouds on
either side of it creates Eddie’s mini
storms that push the jet stream into a
wave-like shape as it goes around
what Saturn lacks in density it more
than makes up for with wind speed the
weather patterns on a planet are
incredibly extreme winds can gust over a
thousand miles per hour storms can last
for months and it’s lightning is up to a
thousand times more powerful than
Earth’s pick up the gigawatts shocking
isn’t it number three there could be
life on one of Saturn’s many moons no
one’s on tight now moon of Saturn or on
me
Space Station getting ready to go NASA
says that Saturn has 62 confirmed moons
53 of which are named with the majority
less than 50 kilometers across of all
the things going on around Saturn Titan
might be the most exciting of all the
aptly named Titan is the largest however
dwarfing even the planet Mercury in
terms of size Titan is the only moon in
the solar system to possess its own
atmosphere meaning researchers are
intent upon exploring it the Titan
Saturn system mission will be launched
in 2020 at a cost of 2.5 billion dollars
Cassini a NASA spacecraft will deliver
Huygens to the vicinity of Saturn and
aim it towards Titan the cassini-huygens
mission is already underway though
investigating Titan and another moon
Enceladus Enceladus boasts an icy
ostensibly barren landscape riddled with
deep canyons dubbed tiger stripes the
probe is sweeping close to the surface
of Enceladus in search of atmospheric
anomalies and signs of alien life
Enceladus is mostly made of ice beneath
which scientists believe there could
exist
some kind of alien ocean this lends
itself to the exciting possibility that
organisms similar to those that thrive
in our own deep oceans near volcanic
vents exceeding carbon dioxide and
hydrogen sulfide might exist on
Enceladus number two humans could fly on
Titan technically speaking if mankind
ever found itself on Saturn’s largest
moon Titan then it could strap on a set
of wings and take to the skies
a combination of high air density and
low gravity on Titan means if you ran
fast enough you could take off students
in England have estimated that you’d
have to clock a ground speed of 11
meters per second before flapping your
arms around which might be tough
considering Usain Bolt runs only
marginally quicker at 12 meters per
second and if you ever did a cheap
flight you do best not to soar too close
to Saturn itself the atmospheric
pressure of the planet is a hundred
times greater than Earth’s strong enough
to turn liquid into gas and then crush a
human being instantly number one
Saturn’s rings will one day disappear
though it isn’t actually the only planet
with rings Jupiter Neptune and Uranus
also have them Saturn’s rings are easily
the biggest and best example of the
phenomena in our solar system but they
won’t be around forever
like the icebergs the Rings are
constantly changing scientists predict
that over time the Rings which are just
twenty meters thick in some areas and
are made of bits of ice and rock will
either expand outwards gradually flowing
away from the planet or Elsa come to
Saturn’s gravitational force and pull
inwards makes this magnificent crown
jewel of the solar system at present the
ring stretch around 120,000 kilometres
from the planet itself however and their
disbanding is not expected for millions
of years so have these facts inspired
you to go telescope shopping I’m not
interested in Saturn for more
out-of-this-world top 10s and will
disappear someday top 5s be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com Saturn very
cool
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