The planet Saturn is the second largest in the solar system, and one of those that have been monitored quite intensively for many years, but only from outer space, without any ship being able to see under its atmosphere. Despite this, scientists analyzed the rings that surround the planet, and made an impressive discovery about the core of the planet Saturn, one that did not seem possible a very long time ago.
The planet Saturn would not have a core made only of earth and ice, as it happens in the case of other planets, and as scientists thought, but has a much more diffuse core. According to scientists, the core that the planet Saturn has would be made of hydrogen and helium in very large quantities, and its diameter would be about 70.000 kilometers, stretching over about 60% of the planet's surface, something that amazed a lot of people.
Planet Saturn: Discovery that Stunned Many Researchers
The planet Saturn had this discovery made based on the analysis of changes recorded in the gravitational forces exerted by the planet on the rings that surround it. These fluctuations of the gravitational forces would be based on the composition of the planet's core, and the way the elements inside it interact with each other, but the whole discovery is based only on the external manifestation of what is actually happening inside the planet Saturn.
"Analyzing a wave from that ring, along with data on Saturn's gravitational field from the missing Cassini spacecraft (SN: 15.09.2017/17/55), Mankovich and Fuller found that the core has about 95 Earth masses of rock and ice. But there is so much hydrogen and helium mixed in, the core contains a total of XNUMX Earth masses – more than half of Saturn's total, which is equivalent to the mass of XNUMX Earths.”
The planet Saturn has a core made of rock and ice, equivalent to 17 times the mass of the Earth, but hydrogen and helium complete that mass up to 55 times that of the Earth. This is how the core of the planet Saturn ends up having a mass that sums up more than half of the total mass of the planet, but again, we are only talking about estimates based on the analysis of the gravitational forces applied to the rings around the cosmic body.
The planet Saturn has many mysteries that maybe will be discovered in the future, maybe they will never be discovered, but most of the discoveries are based on many assumptions.
