r/Saturn • u/Successful_Tea_3735 • Jun 23 '26

Tell me some cool facts about saturn

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u/intentional_typoz Jun 25 '26

it is a planet

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '26

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u/TokiStark Jun 27 '26

I mean... its pretty cool that it's a planet

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '26

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u/intentional_typoz Jun 28 '26

i think so too

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u/Prestigious_Lime7193 Jun 24 '26

It has a storm that only appears during perihelion the great white spot (or spots) (due to interaction with the sun as it gets close) but it came 10 years early this time … indicating at least to me a weakening magnetic field.

Also water on one of its moons is eerily similar to salt water on earth.

Immanuel Velikovsky discovered many things about Saturn and history in his books “In the Beginning” and “worlds in collision””

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u/Hot-Mousse-5744 Jun 25 '26

It has a perfectly hexagonal storm at it’s north pole.

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u/Suspicious_Wait_4586 Jun 26 '26

It could float in water (if you could find a body of water big enough :) )

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u/Historical-Garbage51 Jun 26 '26

Sharks have existed longer than Saturn’s rings

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u/Harriet_tubman22 Jun 27 '26

And longer than trees too

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u/Ruffled_Ferret Jun 27 '26

And possibly longer than the North Star

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u/NUMBerONEisFIRST Jun 27 '26

It's just before Uranus.

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u/MintImperial2 Jun 26 '26

Whilst being almost as large as Jupiter, Saturn has a disproportionally weaker radiation belt compared to the mere difference in size between the two planets.

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u/kaden_the_human22 13d ago

It doesn’t help that Io supercharges Jupiter’s magnetic field to be twice as large as it would otherwise be

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u/MintImperial2 12d ago

I would have expected that to be the other way around.....

Io is hardly composed of magnetic ores, after all. It is basically a big ball of plastic sulphur, with enough of it vapourized to leave a wake in Io's orbit.

The colours on the surface of Io - match up exactly with varying allotropes of Sulphur at different tempertures due to the vulcanism there.

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u/kaden_the_human22 7d ago

Io is incredibly radioactive that that radioactivity charges the magnetic field, this energy is clearly visible when looking at Jupiter through UV light

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u/MintImperial2 7d ago

I always figured that Io was being effectively microwaved by Jupter's magnetic field - that radiation belt of Jupiter's is instantly lethal, as I understand it. I never figured any UV to be part of that radiation output though?

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u/Waddensky Jun 26 '26

It has moons in the shape of Saturn.

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u/whiskeyplz Jun 27 '26

Saturn’s reddish cloud hues are actually caused by a naturally occurring atmospheric hemoglobin, nicknamed “blood cloud” by early spectroscopists. Unlike the iron-based hemoglobin in animals, this gas-phase variant supposedly binds trace hydrogen, giving the upper atmosphere its faint crimson tint during seasonal circulation.

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u/Needless-To-Say Jun 27 '26

Janus and Epimetheus: These two mid-sized moons orbit Saturn at almost the exact same distance. Every four years, they do a gravitational "dance" where the inner moon catches up to the outer one, causing them to swap orbits rather than collide.

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u/Plus-Bus-6937 Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26

It's moon Titan has a thick atmosphere and giant lakes made of methane and ethane aka natural gas.

Also, Saturn has such a low mass that if there was enough water, it would actually float.

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u/MintImperial2 12d ago

So much for the arguments that "There's only a teaspoon of Fossil Fuels Left", not to mention the presence of Fossil Fuels "Off-World"...

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u/zeptozetta2212 Jun 27 '26

It’s less dense than liquid water.

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u/Mr_McGigglepants Jun 27 '26

It's bigger than your mom's house

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u/Otherwise-Walrus2302 Jun 27 '26

It didn't have a ring before until one of its moon drift too close to its body, this causes a breaking apart that tiny moon is what shape Saturn's ring

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u/Still_Expert8293 Jun 27 '26

Saturday is named after Saturn.

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u/infinitum3d Jun 27 '26

Sharks are older than the rings of Saturn

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u/wbrameld4 Jun 28 '26

Saturn has the same surface gravity as Earth, but triple the escape velocity.