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Questions about Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun.

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Does Saturn raise tides on Titan's lakes?

Titan is indeed tidally locked to Saturn. Numerical calculation shows Titan's tides due to Saturn's gravity is 400 times as strong as Moon's tidal effect on Earth. … Near the middle of Titan's orbit around Saturn (quadrature), there is still sufficient pull to cause a gravitational distortion, or deviation from a spherical shape. …
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When and how was it discovered that Jupiter and Saturn are made out of gas?

https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/2932/when-did-we-first-learn-that-jupiter-was-a-gas-giant https://www.quora.com/When-did-astronomers-discover-that-Saturn-and-Jupiter-are-gas …
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What is this 877-year cycle in the orbits of Jupiter & Saturn, and this multimillion-year cy...

What Laplace found was that peculiarities arose in the Jupiter-Saturn system because their orbits of near approach to commensurability of their mean motion. … In the case of Saturn and Jupiter, Saturn made two trips around the Sun while Jupiter made five trips. …
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Did Cassini return a photo of Saturn's rings shown from closer to Saturn?

The image was taken in visible light using the Cassini's wide-angle camera at a distance of 394,000 miles (634,000 kilometers) from Saturn. Image scale is about 11 miles (17 kilometers). … It looks toward the planet's night side, lit by reflected light from the rings, and shows the location at which the spacecraft would enter the planet's atmosphere hours later (Saturn would rotate into …
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