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A New Ring Discovered Around Saturn
Wednesday, October 07, 2009 1:34 PM

Image from NASA A gigantic ring has recently been discovered around Saturn. Most of the material in the ring starts about 3.7 million miles from the planet and extends about another 7.4 million miles. This thing is HUGE. It is made up of ice and dust particles and is not visible with visible light telescopes. The cool ring particles were detected by an infrared... Read More...

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Interesting Facts about Saturn
Thursday, May 28, 2009 11:41 AM

least dense planet, it would float in water well-known for its rings made of ice, dust, and rocks rings are 150,000 miles in diameter but less than 1 km in thickness most flattened planet due to fast rotation farthest planet easily visible to the naked eye the warmest place on Saturn is at its polar vortex (large-scale cyclone). It reaches a balmy -122 °C instead... Read More...

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Interesting Facts about the Outer Planets
Monday, May 11, 2009 3:57 PM

The outer planets are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Located outside of the asteroid belt. These planets are much larger than the inner planets and are called gas giants as they are composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. No solid surface. The hydrogen and helium are in gas form in the atmosphere and below that in a liquid state. Each has many moons... Read More...

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