Saturn
by David Barnhardt
v2.0
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Updated 2 months ago
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1.21 Gb
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Released Dec 2011
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About Saturn
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Saturn is an astronomy app that has over 500 images and graphics of the planet Saturn, its extensive ring system, and 7 major moons: Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, and Iapetus. There is extensive and detailed coverage of each of these worlds including over 100 topics. Cutting edge astronomy and beautiful images returned by the Cassini probe are augmented by a futuristic GUI.
After traveling hundreds of millions of kilometers, the Cassini spacecraft arrived in the Saturnian System in 2004. Subsequently over the last 8 years, tens of thousands of images of the Saturnian System, along with the data recorded by the instruments aboard Cassini, have been transmitted back to Earth. This app is the culmination of over a man-year of work and serves to chronicle and highlight the major discoveries of Cassini pictorially and through analysis of the returned data.
Hitching a ride within Cassini, the Huygens Probe was launched towards Titan, the largest moon in the Saturn system, and made an immediate descent through the thick Titan atmosphere and landed near the equator, recording the journey with a vast array of onboard sensors. This data was beamed back to Cassini, which eventually sent it back to NASA.
You can learn about the Saturnian magnetosphere and how it interacts with Saturns moons, the amazing hexagonal storm system that encircles the north pole of Saturn, and the huge south polar cyclonic vortex. View the progression of a huge storm system that erupted in the northern latitudes of Saturn in late 2010 that still rages and completely encircles the planet in a 10000 kilometer band.
Saturnian weather is intense, with howling storms and extreme winds that churn the atmosphere and vary with the seasons.
Explore the icy plumes of Enceladus emanating from the Tiger Stripe sulci, the wracked and cratered landscapes of the cold ice moons, and the most beautiful, complex and expansive ring system in the solar system. Mimas and Iapetus each have a surface with a crater resembling the appearance of the Death Star. Check out "The Wall" on Iapetus; a mysterious complex ridge system thats hundreds of kilometers long and straddles the equator at towering elevations up to 11 kilometers tall.
Plus a lot more.
Start learning and exploring now with the coolest interactive astronomy app ever, and transport your imagination to the 24th century.
Topics:
SATURN:
โข Physical
โข Interior
โข Atmosphere
โข North Polar Hexagonal Storm System
โข South Polar Storm System
โข Magnetosphere
โข Orbit
โข Rings
โข Atmospheric Methane Analysis
โข North Polar Aurora
โข Seasonal Atmospheric Color Changes
โข Infrared and Ultraviolet imaging
โข Ion Radiation Belts
โข Magnetic Field Draping Around Enceladus
โข Shepherd Moons and Ring Interactions
โข Hyperion Moon
โข Huge Northern Storm Band Ongoing Since 2010
โข The Phoebe Ring
MIMAS:
โข Herschel Crater
โข Thermal Profile
โข Orbital Resonances
โข Morphology
โข Topography
โข Pandora
โข Prometheus
โข Orbit
โข Physical
โข Surface Materials
โข Crater Materials
ENCELADUS:
โข Interaction with Saturns Magnetosphere
โข South Polar Jets
โข Atmosphere
โข Surface
โข Topography
โข Sulci
โข Plasma Torus
โข Enceladus Ring
โข South Polar Polygon
โข Labtayt Sulci
โข Tiger Stripes
โข Baghdad Sulcus
โข Damascus Sulcus
โข Cairo Sulcus
TETHYS:
โข Physical
โข Orbit
โข Geology
โข Surface Materials
โข Odysseus Crater
โข Ithaca Chasma
โข Scheria Montes
โข Melanthius Crater
โข Ogygia Chasma
โข Penelope Crater
โข Trojans
โข Global Color Asymmetry
โข Topography
DIONE:
โข Leading Side vs Trailing Side
โข Surface
โข Surface Materials
โข Cassandra Crater
โข Chasmata/ice Cliffs
โข Trojans
โข Padua Chasmata
โข Topography
โข Geology
โข Orbit
โข Carthage Linea
โข Amastrus Crater
โข Eurotas Chasmata
โข Erulus Crater
โข Water Ice Absorption 3D Map