Is Saturn a gas giant or a terrestrial?

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Is Saturn a gas giant or a terrestrial?

Postby Lapaza » Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:06 am

also do you know how long does it take to rotate, and how has it been studied?
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Postby BadCred » Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:06 am

Saturn is a gas giant, like Jupiter, Saturn',s interior structure is mainly that of simple molecules like hydrogen and helium, which are liquids under the high pressure environments found in the interiors of the outer planets, and not solids. Its volume is 755 times greater than that of Earth. The Giant planets don't have the same layered structure that the terrestrial planets do. Their evolution was quite different than that of the terrestrial planets, and they have less hard material. Its rotation period about axis is 10.67 hrs and the revolution period about the Sun is 29.5 years.

The explorations made to study the planet Saturn are compiled in the link below:
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Postby Bryan9000 » Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:06 am

Gas giant.



By close inspection of irregularities on the surface, doppler effect caused by moving gases on the edges, direct observation, satellite data and through many other measurements, we have calculated the rotational period at ten hours and 32 to 47 minutes the latitude of the gas establishes the exact period .
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Postby MyRide^ » Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:06 am

gas giant.



terrestial ones are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars..



Gases

Jupiter and saturn But they're liquid in their Core



and the other ones are just ice
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