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Mo13-L3b: What are the Outer Planets Made Of?

Saturn has at least 60 moons. Titan is the only moon
What are the Outer Planets
Mo13–L2b in the solar system with a dense atmosphere.
Made Of?
KEY CONCEPTS:
1. What are the outer planets made of?

Let’s Begin

Saturn

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun. It rotates
rapidly and has horizontal bands of clouds.

Mass : 5.68 x 10^26 kg (95 Earths)

Equatorial Diameter: 142,984 km
Polar Diameter: 133,709 km
Equatorial Circumference: 439,264 km

70 kg : Your weight on Saturn is 74.4 kg

Saturn
Distance from Sun:
9.5 AU(1,400,000,000 km) Atmosphere
Length of Day:
10.5 Earth Hours 96.3% Molecular
Hydrogen
Length of Year: 3.25% Helium
29.4 Earth Years
Type: Saturn size
Gas Giant –178 0C compared to Earth
62 Moon 7 Rings
Temperature
Key Concept
Saturn has seven bands of rings, each containing What are the Outer Planets Made Of?
thousands of narrower ringlets.
Describe what makes up Saturn and its ring
The ice particles in the rings are possibly from a system.
moon that was shattered in a collision with another
icy object.
Saturn has seven bands of rings, each containing
thousands of narrower ringlets.

The ice particles in the rings are possibly from a
moon that was shattered in a collision with another
icy object.

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