Saturn

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's magnetosphere consuts of a set of doughnut-shaped radiation belts in which electrons and atomic nuclei are trapped. The belts extend more than two million kilometers from the center of and even farther in the direction away from the sun, although the size of the magnetosphere fluctuates, depending on the intensity of the solar wind. like Jupiter has many storm systems on the planet. From Earth appears to be a yellowish object One of the brightest in the night sky. Observed from a telescope you can see two of 's seven ring bands. Three U.S. spacecraft have enormously increased knowledge
Of the system. The Pioneer 11 probe flew by in September 1979, followed by Voyager 1 in November 1980 and Voyager 2 in August 1981. These carried cameras and instruments for analyzing the intensities and polarizations of radiation in the visible, ultraviolet, infrared, and radio portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The spacecraft were also equipped with instruments for studying magnetic ...

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