Saturn Saturn A table with the aspects (opposition, conjunction to sun, etc.) of the planet Saturn from 2005 to 2020. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aspects of Saturn"
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. It was named after the Roman god Saturn. Its symbol is a stylized representation of the god's sickle ( Unicode: ). ...more on Wikipedia about "Saturn"
Saturn kilometric radiation is the name given to intense radio emissions coming from Saturn. These emissions produce eerie sounds, and are believed to be related to the auroras at the poles of the planet. ...more on Wikipedia about "Saturn kilometric radiation"
A Saturn-crosser asteroid is an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Saturn. The known numbered Saturn-crossers are listed below. There is only one inner-grazer ( 944 Hidalgo) and no outer-grazers or co-orbitals known; most if not all of the crossers are Centaurs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Saturn-crosser asteroid"
The Voyager program consisted of a pair of unmanned scientific probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, launched in 1977. They were sent to study Jupiter and Saturn, using an advantageous planetary alignment of the late 1970s. However, the mission planners always had in the back of their minds a continued mission, and Voyager 2 also examined Uranus and Neptune. They were originally conceived as part of the Mariner program, being Mariner 11 and Mariner 12 respectively. The original program name was Mariner Jupiter-Saturn. It was later given the more appealing and romantic name "Voyager". ...more on Wikipedia about "Voyager program"
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