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To: bitterohiogunclinger

You’re assuming that the planet Saturn has NO atmosphere. See my reply to others. Thanks for yours.


25 posted on 02/14/2014 4:51:47 PM PST by Tucker39 ("Having their conscience seared with a hot iron.")
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To: Tucker39

The rings aren’t in the atmosphere.


26 posted on 02/14/2014 4:56:38 PM PST by mlo
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To: Tucker39

This is a follow-up to ANGGAPO and bitterohiogunclinger who questioned whether there is sound on Saturn “because space is a vacuum.” Below is a link, and an excerpt from what I found there. I found it interesting that there are 1800 kph winds on Saturn. The idea that those winds are silent gives me brain cramps. I found 2 links with audio from the Cassini Spacecraft of the noise from Saturn’s rings. The cherry on top is: Saturn is a GAS GIANT, so it MUST have an atmosphere, which it does.

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cassini-Huygens/Saturn_s_atmosphere

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38pJhxCzR-I

http://www.howitworksdaily.com/space/the-sound-of-saturns-rings/

SATURN’S ATMOSPHERE

Saturn is approximately 75% hydrogen and 25% helium with traces of other substances like methane and water ice.

Saturn’s atmosphere, although similar to Jupiter’s, is much less interesting to look at from a distance. But enhanced-colour images (shown above) allow us to study the bands across which run parallel to the equator much like Jupiter’s, indicating violent winds.

Saturn is one of the windiest places in the Solar System, and wind speeds have been clocked at a staggering 1800 kilometres per hour at the equator. Occasionally, violent ‘white’ storms break through the cloud layers, each one bigger than Earth. The last of these was observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in 1994. Smaller storms occur as darker spots, and have been shown in recent Cassini-Huygens images.


27 posted on 02/14/2014 5:28:23 PM PST by Tucker39 ("Having their conscience seared with a hot iron.")
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