Saturn and 8 of its Moons by Bambam131
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The Planet Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun in our Solar System and the second largest! orbit:1,429,400,000 km (9.54 AU)from Sundiameter:120,536 km (equatorial) mass:5.68e26 kg. Saturn's rings are extraordinarily thin: though they're 250,000 km or more in diameter they're less than one kilometer thick. Despite their impressive appearance, there's really very little material in the rings. If the rings were compressed into a single body it would be no more than 100 km across. The ring particles seem to be composed primarily of water ice, but they may also include rocky particles with icy coatings. Saturn has 18 named satellites plus 12 recently discovered and as yet unnamed ones: This image was created in Bryce 5 from scratch, Actual mat for Saturn found at JPL/NASA web site. Rings created in Bryce with Bryce material lab. I
Comments (3)
ocddoug
excellent, David, love these space scenes..I'd like to see the actual space image by itself so I could use it as my wallpaper :-)
DMFW
I like the delicate quality of the rings which you've captured beautifully. One minor problem with the picture is the big satellite at the front which looks like it is inside the rings. All the large moons orbit well outside the ring system (I take it is isn't a shadow on the planet 'cos it doesn't quite look right for that)
Bambam131
Thanks for the comment DMFW. Actually I didnt say which of the moons I put in the picture, and if you look closely the moon that you referring to is underneath the ring not in them. It was hard enough to try to give some sense of the enormity of the planet without trying to put in exact distances which moon was where. I hope this helps explains why you see the planet as it is. David