Saturn The Sixth Planet.........
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SATURN is rather like Jupiter but smaller, more flattened, with less-prominent cloud markings. Yellowish and tan cloud belts parallel the equator. Occasional bright and dark markings disturb these belts, but a greater depth of overlying haze makes these less visible than on Jupiter. Spectroscopic studies from Earth and Voyagers 1 and 2 identified the main gases as molecular hydrogen (88.2% by mass) and helium (11%) an atmosphere similar to that of Jupiter. Saturn is best known for its RINGS, when Galileo first turned his crude telescope on Saturn in 1610, he could not see the rings clearly. He saw only fuzzy appendages on each side of the globe, he drew Saturn as a triple planet......
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