Ok, im doing a science project and this project is about making a brochure about a planet, im supposed to pretend im a travel agent. anyway, you have to have a theme for your planet such as a ski resort, beach resort, or racing. anything like that. well i was going to do a beach resort but i dont know if there is water on saturn. so the question is, is there any type of water on saturn such as lakes, oceans, or rivers? can anyone tell me please.
2007-12-31 07:13:07 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Saturn's moons may have a frozen ocean. See article below.
2007-12-31 07:22:08 · answer #1 · answered by Mike 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello and How Nice to Work on a Brochure...
First of all let me tell you that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are all "GAS GIANTS." That means that those planets are huge balls of gas. There is no hard surface on them, which is quite a bit different from the situations on
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and Pluto (if we are still thinking about Pluto as a planet or mini planet...
Saturn is mainly composed of Hydrogen (96.3 Percent) with the remainder being Helium and some other trace gases. The cloud top temperatures are Minus 292 Degrees F. So, it is very, very cold there.
Now as far as water is concerned, hydrogen and helium are the lightest elements known and of course water is much heavier. So, any water present would have sunken down into the core of the planet long, long ago. As a result there are no seas, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc. at all, just a huge ball of frigid gas. There is not even any place to walk, sit, or land on if you made a trip there.
764 planets the size of the Earth could fit inside of Saturn...that is how big it is. As you move from the clouds to the surface and then deeper into the mass of the planet itself, the gases become hotter and hotter due to the immense pressure of all that gas pressing down onto the core of the planet. Deep inside the gases are molten and probably almost like a liquid metal. The core is ice and rock and about twenty times the size of the Earth.
Saturn is lashed constantly by high winds, and at the equator where the planet's rotation is most obvious, those winds can reach up to 1200 miles per hour. Storms run rampant on the planet, and cause a very disturbed upper atmosphere. There are 34 + Moons made up of rock and ice orbiting the planet Saturn which you might want to mention in your brochure. Some of these are Titan, Phoebe, Pallene, and Dione. Others are fairly small, and we are still discovering new ones in that smaller category as time passes.
No Sailing.
No Swimming.
No Fishing.
No Sunbathing.
No Water Sports at all.
Regards,
Zah
2007-12-31 07:58:39 · answer #2 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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Does saturn have any type of water on it? such as oceans, lakes, or rivers?
Ok, im doing a science project and this project is about making a brochure about a planet, im supposed to pretend im a travel agent. anyway, you have to have a theme for your planet such as a ski resort, beach resort, or racing. anything like that. well i was going to do a beach resort but i dont...
2015-08-06 12:33:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saturn is a gas giant, except maybe for a core of debris that planet has gulped out of space, there is no solid surface. It's just a ball of compressed gas. To Quote NASA:
Most scientists believe Saturn is a giant ball of gas that has no solid surface. However, the planet seems to have a hot solid inner core of iron and rocky material. Around this dense central part is an outer core that probably consists of ammonia, methane, and water. A layer of highly compressed, liquid metallic hydrogen surrounds the outer core. Above this layer lies a region composed of hydrogen and helium in a viscous (syruplike) form. The hydrogen and helium become gaseous near the planet's surface and merge with its atmosphere, which consists chiefly of the same two elements.
2007-12-31 07:53:45 · answer #4 · answered by JimGeek 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Under it's dense atmosphere the pressure on the gases becomes enough to turn it into a liquid but it's mostly liquid hydrogen, not water, but maybe you could try a sky diving resort!
2007-12-31 07:17:19 · answer #5 · answered by C..... 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, Saturn's density is less than water.
Saturn has a density of 0.687 g/cm³.
2007-12-31 07:34:47 · answer #6 · answered by Jansen J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Water vapor perhaps but lakes, it is impossible. Youwoul need ground and there is no ground.
2007-12-31 09:28:44 · answer #7 · answered by Asker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope
2007-12-31 07:43:34 · answer #8 · answered by Synthuir 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
either that or hanggliding of some kind
2007-12-31 07:20:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋