Why do Uranus and Neptune appear blue in color group of answer choices?
Neptune’s atmosphere is made up of hydrogen, helium and methane. The methane in Neptune’s upper atmosphere absorbs the red light from the sun but reflects the blue light from the Sun back into space. This is why Neptune appears blue.
Why are planet rings so thin?
Why are Saturn’s rings so thin? It has to do with the ring particles colliding with each other. Ring particles that are high above or below the rings are in a highly “inclined” (tilted) orbit, and have more energy than ring particles that are closer to the ring plane.
Is Saturn almost as big as Jupiter?
With a diameter of 120,536 kilometers (almost 75,000 miles) it is the second largest planet in the solar system. While almost as big in size as Jupiter, Saturn’s density is the lowest in the solar system and its mass only 30 percent that of Jupiter. Like Jupiter, Saturn is made up mainly of hydrogen and helium gases.
What is the exact size of Saturn?
about 75 thousand miles
What is the diameter of Saturn without its rings?
Again, the equatorial diameter of Saturn is 120,536 km and its polar diameter is 108,728 km. It is very important to understand why the difference in these diameters is so large, that is why so much detail is given on the rotational speed of the planet.
What is the mass and diameter of Saturn?
A world very different from Earth… It has an equatorial diameter of 119,300 kilometers (74,130 miles), and its volume would enclose 750 Earths! The mass of Saturn is 95 times the mass of Earth. However, Saturn’s gravity is only 1.08 times the gravity on Earth because Saturn is such a large planet.
Can we burn Jupiter?
This corresponds to about 13 times the mass of Jupiter, meaning that Jupiter itself is incapable of ever ‘igniting’. Jupiter lies pretty close to the limit of what we’d call a gas giant. But by definition, if a gas giant is massive enough to ‘ignite’ deuterium fusion it is not a gas giant at all, but a brown dwarf.