According to an international team of researchers, Saturn, the giant gas planet encircled with yellow and gold bands, is spinning slower than expected.
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Instead of a day on Saturn lasting roughly 11 hours, the researchers have calculated the rotation period is 10 hours and 47 minutes__ eight minutes slower than estimates from the NASA voyager results during the early 1980s.
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It has been further stated by researchers that it could affect the size of the planet's rock and ice core and provide more insights into how it formed.
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As scientista believe, the measurement of Saturn's period of rotation may prove to be pathbreaking for future research on planetary characteristics. It is after an effort of almost two years that scientists have succeded in getting fascinating insights into Saturn.
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In another improtant research on the topography of the Saturnian moon Titan, an international team of space scientists led by Prof. Ralph Lorenz of the University of Arizona (USA) has found that Titan has huge regions covered with dunes. The findings of this research, published in Science in the first week of May 2006, reveal that these dunes might be made up of ice crystals, sand or some other unknown material. According to the researchers, Titan's atmosphere is thicker than Earth's, its gravity is lower and its sand has a completely different composition. Thus, it is only due to the physical process, which could have taken place there, to which the formation of dunes can be attributed. The existence of dunes, piled over other geographical features probably suggests that wind recently blew fine grains of some material (sand, ice or something else) around, which might have resulted in their formation.
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