Informative Speech On Saturn's Ringss

Saturn is unique. Unlike the other 8 planets in our solar system (YES PLUTO counts to me!), Saturn has one thing going for it the others are lacking. Rings! Beautiful, multicoloured rings, make the 6th planet from the sun a cosmic marvel, but how and why are they there? Hello and welcome back to Life’s Biggest Questions, I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today I am asking: why does Saturn have rings? Before we take off into this video, I just want to ask you guys to leave me your comments down below. Okay Saturn, you big old planetary babe….what have you got for us. Well… okay, something I said at the beginning of this video isn’t actually true…. While Saturn certainly boasts the most impressive array of rings, it isn’t actually the only planet

Heh. Ahem. Jupiter’s rings, for example, were only discovered in 1979 by Nasa’s Voyager 1, and are very thin and dark, unlike Saturn’s big bright ice rings, that have been the centre of much discussion for hundreds of years. Now, I don’t want you to get too excited straight away; the subject of Saturn’s rings is still much debated in the astrological world; even our mates at Nasa don’t have a definitive answer as to why they are there, but we do have a few pretty big clues. You may have spotted a common denominator between the four planets with advertised rings here – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are our four gas giants. This likely tells us something about the way gravity on these huge planets influences its surroundings. While we know a little more about Jupiter’s very faint rings, Saturn’s bog boys have been a source of fascination and deliberation since they were first observed by Galileo Galilei in 1610. Since then, we have discovered Saturn has seven groups of rings made up of thousands of smaller rings. Four of the group of seven stand out as being bigger than the other three, and each are separated by gaps that scientists call divisions.

She things the rock core of the moon the likely crashed into Saturn. As for the 5 percent of Saturn’s rings that aren’t space dust – it is thought by Canup that this is made up of meteorites that have hurtled by over the years. Her theory is largely supported by Nasa’s Larry Esposito. While this theory does seem to explain the inner rings of Saturn, the space probe, Cassini, which studied the planet from 2004 to 2017, suggested that the outer ring, the E ring, is made from ice, silicates, carbon dioxide and ammonia from cryocolcanic plumes…. So, volcanic matter, from Enceladus, Saturn’s 6th largest moon. This could explain why Saturn’s rings are observed to be different colours; they’re made up from different icy matter. While Cassini plunged into Saturn in 2017, it did managed to skirt the inner rings and send a lot of data back to earth, which is still being deciphered. While scientists don’t have all the answers yet, it is thought that the key to understanding the group formation of the rings comes from studying the planets roche limit.