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ATURN The Spectacular Planet by Franklyn M. Branley illustrated by Leonard Kesslen AVOYAGE INTO SPACE BOOK In 1980 and 1981, after journeys ofmore than a billion kilometers, the spacecrafts Voyager1 and Voyager2 traveled towithin 30,000 kilometers of the planet Saturn. They sent back to Earth not only thou- sands of spectacular photographs, but more information about Saturn than had been gathered in the 370 years since Galileo first saw the planet through a telescope. In a lucid and simply written text o 0?- Franklyn M. Branley presents the most »<>,$ up-to-date information we have about Saturn:itssizeandshapeandtemperature, its atmosphere, !cs satellites, and its ex- traordinary rings Illustrated throughout with drawings by Leonard Kessler and with photographs taken by the two Voyagers, this is a complete and accurate introduction to the queen of all the planets. Thomas Y Crowell New York BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Digitized by the Internet Archive 2012 in http://archive.org/details/saturnspectaculaOObran / \ \ \ by Franklyn M. Branley ILLUSTRATED BY LEONARD KESSLER THOMAS Y. CROWEIX NEW YORK \ \ V ..JAERCURY — +^~- EAAftTH SATURN The Spectacular Planet SATURN: THESPECTACULAR PLANET Textcopyright © 1983 byFranklyn M. Branley Illustrationscopyright © 1983 by Leonard Kessler All rights reserved. Nopartofthisbook maybe usedorreproduced inany mannerwhatsoeverwithout writtenpermissionexceptin thecaseofbriefquotations embodied incriticalarticlesand reviews. Printed in theUnitedStatesofAmerica. Forinformationaddress ThomasY. CrowellJuniorBooks, 10 East 53rdStreet, NewYork, N.Y. 10022. Published simultaneously in Canadaby Fitzhenry&WhitesideLimited,Toronto. LibraryofCongressCataloging in Publication Data Branley, Franklyn Mansfield, 1915- Saturn. Summary: Describes the physical featuresand charac- teristicsofthe"QueenofthePlanets"and itssatellites, and presentstheoriesaboutthe ringsofSaturn. 1. Saturn(Planet)—Juvenileliterature. [1. Saturn (Planet)] I. Kessler,Leonard P.,date ill. II.Tide. QB62_LBJ 523.4'6 81-43890 *N 0-690-04213-2 AACR2 ISBN 0-690-04214-0(lib. bdg.) 10 9 8 7 6 5 First Edition cfS^^^O^t'S"^. 1 Contents ^H Introduction 1 Before the Space Probes 2 Pioneer and Voyager 8 The Size and Shape of Saturn 10 Rotation and Revolution 12 Heat and Temperature 14 Density, Mass, and Gravity 17 The Layers of Saturn 2 The Rings of Saturn 27 Theories about the Rings 30 Saturn's Satellites 34 Finding Saturn in the Night Sky 48 Index 52 (Color photograph insert begins after page 26.)
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