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- Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
2: |+ <font size="+1">'''Saturn'''</font>
4: ...[Image:Saturn (planet) large.jpg|250px|The planet Saturn]]<br> <small><font color="white">Click image for ...
137: ... the [[Roman mythology|Roman god]] [[Saturn (god)|Saturn]]. Its symbol is a stylized representation of the...
140: ... of 0.69. This is only an average value, however; Saturn's upper atmosphere is less dense and its core is ...
142: ...nterior, the droplets of helium releasing heat by friction as they fall down through the lighter hydro...
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- Alexandria (28378 bytes)
14: * The Roman era from [[80 BC]] until the arrival of the Arabs in [[6...
15: * The Arab city from [[641]] until [[1798]] when Napoleon arrived (y...
16: * The modern city from [[1798]] (red).
21: ...ects metal effigies on the beach which succeed in frightening the monsters away.
23: ...ehind the screen of the Pharos island and removed from the silt thrown out by Nile mouths. An Egyptia... - Earth (30908 bytes)
7: ...th''' or '''Terra''', is the third planet outward from the [[Sun]]. It is the largest of the [[solar s...
14: ...f approximately 12,742 km. The maximum deviations from this are the highest point on Earth (the summit...
55: ... is only 1/20,000 as great as the energy received from the Sun.
74: ...utaway-english.png|thumb|350px|left|Earth cutaway from core to exosphere. Partially to scale.]]
86: ...Peridotite|harzburgite]]s which has been observed from deep parts of the oceanic crust that have been ... - Volcano (27295 bytes)
4: The name "volcano" has its origin from the name of [[Vulcan (god)|Vulcan]], a god of f...
18: ...'[[Volcanic cones]]''' or [[cinder cone]]s result from eruptions that throw out mostly small pieces of...
41: ...tive" volcano. The lifespan of a volcano can vary from months to several million years, making such a ...
43: ...to note that the span of recorded history differs from region to region; in the [[Mediterranean]], rec...
47: ...tone as extinct. In fact, because the caldera has frequent earthquakes, a very active geothermal syste... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
12: ...motto = ''Je Maintiendrai''<br>([[French language|French]]: "I will maintain")|
14: ...es = [[Dutch language|Dutch]], [[Frisian language|Frisian]] <sup>1</sup> |
40: established_dates = [[Eighty Years' War|From Spain]]<br/>[[May 23]], [[1568]]<br/>[[January ...
64: After gaining formal independence from the [[Spanish Empire]] under [[Philip IV of Spa...
68: ...xembourg seceded because its laws prevented women from becoming Head of State. Luxembourg turned to th... - Tennessee (19096 bytes)
39: ...ed "Tanasqui" in [[1567]] while travelling inland from [[South Carolina]]. European settlers later enc...
48: ...9]], nearly 17,000 Cherokees were forced to march from Eastern Tennessee to [[Indian Territory]] west ...
50: ...ennessee was the last Confederate state to secede from the Union when it did so on [[June 8]], [[1861]...
52: Tennessee was the only state that seceded from the Union that did not have a military governor...
72: ...see Governors]], [[U.S. Congressional Delegations from Tennessee]]'' - Desert (21206 bytes)
18: ...ey should be designated as specifically different from the simple definition of a desert: a place whe...
20: ...s an [[ice cap]] if the temperature remains below freezing year-round, rendering the land almost compl...
22: ... other areas are arid by virtue of being very far from the nearest available sources of moisture (this...
28: ...orld's largest desert, the [[Sahara]] of [[North Africa]], which has experienced temperatures as high ...
32: ... These deserts are in interior [[watershed]]s far from oceans and have a wide range of annual temperat... - Solar system (21174 bytes)
14: **[[Saturn (planet)|Saturn]] (♄)
26: **[[Planetesimal]]s, from which the planets were originally formed, are s...
30: **[[Meteoroid]]s are asteroids that range in size from roughly boulder sized to particles as small as ...
34: ... belt and [[scattered disk object]]s in the outer fringes.
36: ...Sedna]], with a highly elliptical orbit extending from about 76 to 928 AU, does not obviously fit in e... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...is picture of [[433 Eros]] shows the view looking from one end of the asteroid across the gouge on its...
4: The term "asteroid", meaning ''star-like'' (from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''asteroeides'', '...
8: ...larger than 50 m in diameter, distinguishing them from [[meteoroid]]s, which are typically [[boulder]]...
14: ...Earth's solar system. As of [[May 23]], [[2005]], from a total of 277,090 minor planets with calculate...
24: ...s, whereas families are much "tighter" and result from the catastrophic break-up of a large parent ast... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ..."dirty snowballs", comets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]]...
5: ...ances from the sun consisting of debris left over from the [[condensation]] of the [[solar nebula]]; t...
9: ... the ion tail (gas) always pointing directly away from the Sun, since the gas is more strongly affecte...
11: ...hs of kings or noble men, or coming catastrophes. From ancient sources, such as Chinese oracle bones, ...
21: ...ncke]] has an orbit which never places it farther from the Sun than [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. Shor... - Planet (8450 bytes)
3: ...g [[nebula]] that a star formed from, aggregating from gas and dust that orbited the [[protostar]] in ...
7: ...om classical mythology or (in the case of Uranus) from the plays of [[Shakespeare]]. Asteroids can be ...
10: [[Image:Solare_Planeten99.jpg|framed|Planets in approx. scale of size, but not dis...
12: ...anets in our solar system (in increasing distance from the [[Sun]]):
18: # [[Saturn (planet)|Saturn]] (♄) - [[Saturn's natural satellites|46 confirmed satellites]] - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
3: ==From fiction to fact==
6: ...luding a full-size replica of the [[Apollo 11]] [[Saturn V]] rocket, the original [[Apollo program|Apollo]...
11: From a spaceflight perspective, the definition of sp...
15: ... The first [[organisms]] launched into space were fruit flies and corn seeds aboard a U.S.-launched V2...
22: The [[Canadian Space Agency]] (CSA or, in French, the ASC) is the government department respon... - Mercury (planet) (22924 bytes)
1: ...st planet in the [[Solar System]]. Mercury ranges from −0.4 to 5.5 in [[apparent magnitude]]; Me...
8: (This Data comes from [http://www.answers.com/topic/mercury-in-roman-...
10: ...[temperature]] of Mercury is 452 K, but it ranges from 90–700 K; by comparison, the temperature ...
12: ...posited by [[comet]] impacts and/or gases arising from the planetary interior.
182: The orbit of Mercury is eccentric, ranging from 46 million–70 million kilometres in radiu... - Pioneer 11 (5118 bytes)
1: ...right|thumb|400px|Pioneer 11 at [[Saturn (planet)|Saturn]] (artist's impression)]]
3: ... Saturn and then it followed an escape trajectory from the [[solar system]].
5: ...ettings were modified, based on experience gained from the settings used on Pioneer 10. Three pairs of...
7: ...on]]. Further scientific information was obtained from [[celestial mechanics]] and [[occultation pheno...
9: ...f the first spacecraft views of [[Saturn (planet)|Saturn]] was taken by Pioneer 11 on [[September 1]], [[1... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
9: ...]], [[1571]] at the [[Imperial Free City|Imperial Free City]] of [[Weil der Stadt]] (now part of the [...
11: Though he excelled in his schooling, Kepler was frequently bullied, and was plagued by a belief that...
15: ...o be a superb mathematician. Upon his graduation from that school in [[1591]], he went on to pursue s...
19: ...ath, Kepler was appointed Imperial Mathematician (from November [[1601]] to [[1630]]) to the Habsburg ...
32: ... [[Platonic solid]] model of the [[Solar system]] from ''Mysterium Cosmographicum'' (1596)]] - World War II (58065 bytes)
1: ...e:nagasakibomb.jpg|thumb|295px|[[Mushroom cloud]] from the [[nuclear explosion]] over [[Nagasaki]] ris...
6: ...ranean Sea]], [[African Theatres of World War II|Africa]], the [[Middle East Theatre of World War II|M...
8: ... a case of [[total war]], it involved the "[[home front]]" and [[Strategic bombing|bombing of civilian...
18: ...7. Spain's fascist government lead by [[Francisco Franco]] was a great asset in trade to the Axis powe...
22: ...of the British Empire, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Gr... - Cirrus cloud (3505 bytes)
9: ...proaching. Cirrus clouds can also be the remnants from a [[thunderstorm]].
11: ...eptune. They have even been seen on Titan, one of Saturn's moons. Some of these extraterrestrial cirrus cl...
15: ...es they are like blown out ice-crystals spreading from the top of a dying cumulonimbus.
20: ...ms occasionally produce copious amounts of cirrus from their anvils.[18] High-altitude winds commonly ...
25: ...ostratus clouds When cirrus clouds precede a cold front, squall line or multicellular thunderstorm, it... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
1: '''Venus''', the second [[planet]] from the [[Sun]], is named after the [[Roman mytholo...
3: ..., it always appears in roughly the same direction from Earth as the Sun (the greatest [[elongation]] i...
7: ...me astronomers use ''[[Cytherean]]'', which comes from [[Cythera]]. Other less common adjectives incl...
14: ...]'s, even though Venus is nearly twice as distant from the Sun and only receives 25% of the solar irra...
16: ...k into space. This prevents most of the sunlight from ever heating the surface. Venus's [[Bolometer|... - Mars (27704 bytes)
4: '''Mars''' is the fourth [[planet]] from the [[Sun]] in the [[solar system]]. It is name...
6: ...#x2642; (a circle with a small arrow pointing out from behind it), is a stylized representation of the...
15: ...en summer and winter, giving rise to Earth-like [[frost]] and large [[cirrus cloud]]s [http://marsrove...
18: ...tic field would have helped to protect the planet from [[cosmic radiation]]. Other explanations have a...
22: Amongst the findings from the Opportunity rover is the presence of [[hema... - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
138: ...It and the other [[gas giant]]s [[Saturn (planet)|Saturn]], [[Uranus (planet)|Uranus]], and [[Neptune (pla...
142: ...ter was able to be seen, just below the [[Moon]], from parts of the [[Southern Hemisphere]].
145: ...uishes a large and massive planet such as Jupiter from a [[brown dwarf]], although the latter possesse...
175: ...phases of hydrogen; the conditions blend smoothly from gas to liquid as one descends.
178: [[Image:Jupiter from Voyager 1.jpg|thumb|left|Detail of Jupiter's at... - Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
2: |+ <font size="+1">'''Saturn'''</font>
4: ...[Image:Saturn (planet) large.jpg|250px|The planet Saturn]]<br> <small><font color="white">Click image for ...
137: ... the [[Roman mythology|Roman god]] [[Saturn (god)|Saturn]]. Its symbol is a stylized representation of the...
140: ... of 0.69. This is only an average value, however; Saturn's upper atmosphere is less dense and its core is ...
142: ...nterior, the droplets of helium releasing heat by friction as they fall down through the lighter hydro...
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