What does saturn look like when it is seen from Earth? What makes saturn look like this?
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The rings can be viewed using a quite modest modern telescope or with a good pair of binoculars. They extend from 6,630 km to 120,700 km above Saturn's equator, and are composed of silica rock, iron oxide, and ice particles ranging in size from specks of dust to the size of a small automobile. There are two main theories regarding the origin of Saturn's rings. One theory, originally proposed by Édouard Roche in the 19th century, is that the rings were once a moon of Saturn whose orbit decayed until it came close enough to be ripped apart by tidal forces (see Roche limit). A variation of this theory is that the moon disintegrated after being struck by a large comet or asteroid. The second theory is that the rings were never part of a moon, but are instead left over from the original nebular material that Saturn formed out of. This theory is not widely accepted today, since Saturn's rings are thought to be unstable over periods of millions of years and therefore of relatively recent origin.
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What confuses you about the moon? Most planets have them. Ours is old, lifeless, has a high reflectivity, and rotates once for every revolution (so we always see the same side). Why are you confused?
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Water ice. \nhttp://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Saturn&Display=Moons\n\nIn some places it is strewn with ice boulders and ice blocks between 10 and 100 meters across. Other areas are covered with fine homogenous particulates.\nhttp://www.solarviews.com/eng/enceladu.htm
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The satellite has a straight rotation around the earth but most do not have the same direction of rotation as the earth. but a tilted rotation so that it passes from the northern hemesphere to the southeren hemesphere. combined with the earths actual rotation makes it look like the satellite zig zag
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Every being on earth's appearance is determined by their lifestyle/environment/etc, up to a point, and I wouldn't expect anything else for life forms of other planets.\n\nAre we talking about other carbon-based life forms, or are they methane-basted? Or ethane-based? Or, why not, even hydrogen-based? What kind of environment do they live in? What type of atmosphere does their planet have? What is the climate?\n\nAsking what an alien like is sort of like asking what an animal looks like. I bet there are so many different types...\n\nOne failing of a lot of science fiction is that, in the designing of the aliens, they just wanted to make them as weird a version of humans as possible, without thinking about what sort of biology their home planet would naturally produce.
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Hey visit \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn
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Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun. It is a gas giant, the second-largest planet in the solar system after Jupiter. Saturn has a prominent system of rings, consisting of mostly ice particles with a smaller amount of rocky debris and dust. It was named after the Roman god Saturn. Its symbol is a stylized representation of the god's sickle
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he Very Large Telescope (VLT) has caught a remarkable image of the planet Uranus circled by some of its moons.\n\nThe rings of the planet - which is 3,000 million kilometres away from Earth - are clearly displayed in the image.\n\nThe rings are almost undetectable from Earth in visible light.\n\nThe VLT is located at the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in Chile.\n\nThe image was obtained in the near-infrared, and includes seven of the planet's moons.\n\nVLT\nVLT is based at Paranal in Chile\nTwo of the moons in the picture, Puck and Portia, were only found in the 1980s as the Voyager probe prepared for its flyby of the planet.\n\nUranus, which is at a distance from the Earth equivalent to 20 times the distance between the Earth and Sun, was first spotted by William Herschel in 1781.
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Saturn's temperature ranges from -139 C at the cloudtops to 11,700 C at the core.  So the answer is yes, depending on where you are.
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The rotation of the moon just happens to be in the same sync as its orbit around the earth, so we only see one side. From the looks of the moon, though, it's speculated that the moon may have orbited faster or rotated faster, etc because there are crater marks on the earth side also, just not as many.\n\nActually, the moon is locked in its orbit so it always faces the Earth. The Moon is NOT perfectly round...technically its shaped like an egg due to the effects of gravity from the earth and possibly too when the moon was formed bilions of years agao after a huge meteor crashed into the earth and some of the Earth's molten core spewed out into space. Because the Earth is more massive than the Moon, it pulls on the Moon, "stretching" it closer to the Earth, throwing the shape and axis off, causing the moon unable to rotate on its own axis. This same effect is seen by the moons of other massive planets like Jupiter and Saturn. The same is effect is also seen with Mercury due to its close proximity the Sun and its massive gravitational effects.
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Finally a good question.\n\nThe Moon's apparent size being very similar to the Sun's apparent size is a coincidence. But the Moon doesn't always cover the Sun during an eclipse, look up annular eclipse (the looks smaller), and when it does cover it, it is usually a bit larger.\n\nBut now let's talk about the main question.\n\nWe always see the same side of the Moon because its during its full rotation around the Earth it also makes a full rotation around its axis. This is not a coincidence. There are several satellites in the solar system whose rotation is synchronized with their rotation around a planet (eg. Io around Jupiter, Charon around Pluto but also Pluto around Charon :-) etc. ).\n\nThe Earth's gravitation decreases with the distance from its center. So the Moon's opposite side (which is further away from the Earth) is attracted less by the Earth than the side which is closer. This results in the Moon being a little bit deformed along the Earth-Moon line.\nThe Moon is a little bit shaped like an egg: if it would rotate faster, it would not be elongated towards the Earth anymore, and the Earth's gravitation would try to turn it back. This is very difficult to explain without the opportunity to draw figures ... but anyway, search for tidal locking on the net, I hope you'll find a good, illustrated explanation.\n\n\nEDIT: In one answer someone said that Mercury is in a similar relation with the Sun ... this is not exactly true, as the ratio of period of its rotation and the period of its orbiting is 3/2.\n\nMercury also has an elongated shape: due to this 3:2 resonance, at its perihelion, the axis of its elongation is always parallel with the Sun--Mercury axis.\n\nEDIT2: As I said, the apparent size of the Moon is just a concidence. Other planents do get total eclipses. What does a total eclipse mean? It means that a moon casts a shadow on the planet: http://www.c-science.com/txt/images/1999/990428unssx2.jpg\n\nThere is a nice program calles Celestia, which can show you the eclipses caused by various moons on various planets (3D animations): http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
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The sky has not the same material entity as earth does. It is a dense gaseous zone and of course is up, as mentioned by previous answerers.\nInformation can be found at \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sky\nI liked the paragraph about sky and the religion. Also the paragraph on sky and mythology is interesting\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_mythology\nI'm going to see now about the colour and what is contributing to that ....also in Katmandu(it is not sarcsm, just a joke).\n\nKaterina
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The moon is basically a great big lump of dull coloured rock that floats around quarter of a million miles from us.  Just like earth, it's illuminated by the sun so what you're seeing is reflected sunlight.\n\nIt can appear as different colours due to the atmosphere here on earth.\n\nWhen the moon is up in the sky you're looking at it through a thin layer of atmosphere but when it's low on the horizon you're looking through a greater amount of atmosphere.\n\nThe way that our atmosphere breaks up sunlight into differnt colours (Rayleigh Scattering) affects the colour that the moon appears to be.  So too can particles in the atmosphere - particularly dust and volcanic ash which often gives it a reddish tinge.
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Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn AND Uranus (many people forget this one)\n\nWith a magnitude of 5.8, Uranus is visible with an unaided eye.\n\nIt is so faint, and moves so slowly, however, that it wasn't identified as a planet until after the telescope was invented.\n\nHowever, on a very dark night and if you know exactly where to look (and have good vision), Uranus is visible with the naked eye.
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Saturn.  It's my favorite planet.  I guess because it is so different from the other planets.
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Rings circle all four of the gas giant planets in our solar system, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, though only Saturn’s are obvious when viewed from Earth. Contrary to their appearance, they are not solid rings or disks at all. Rather they are composed of bits and pieces of ice, rock and dust. In the case of Saturn’s brightly visible rings, they consist of more ice, which reflects sunlight effectively. The rings of the other planets contain mostly dust, which is dark and doesn’t reflect much light. Additionally, whereas Saturn's rings are wide, the other planets sport thin rings.\nThe rings of Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune probably arose as a result of meteor impacts on their tiny inner satellites. Dust and rocky debris blasted off the satellites' surfaces continues to orbit the planet for many years.  Of interest, Earth is acquiring its own "ring system" of space junk and debris from old satellites and launch vehicles.
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Off the top of my head: both are "gas giant" planets, but Jupiter is WAY bigger. Jupiter has a ton of satellite moons orbiting around it. Saturn has that weird-ass ring going around it which they just discovered is not a ring but more a like a spiral. Jupiter has this storm that never ends, that looks like a spot. Imagine a hurricane that never ended on Earth. Also Saturn has a heavy core for some reason. You could probably land on Saturn, but not in Jupiter. I wonder what it looks like when you land there.