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Saturn: Crash Course Astronomy #18

Welcome to school without the classroom! Join host Phil Plait and discover everything there is to know about the cosmos.

Saturn: Crash Course Astronomy #18

Season 1 Episode 18 | 12m 12s

Saturn is the crown jewel of the solar system, beautiful and fascinating. It is a gas giant, and has a broad set of rings made of ice particles. Saturn has dozens of moons, including Titan, which is as big as Mercury and has a thick atmosphere and lakes of methane; and Enceladus which has an undersurface ocean and eruptions of water geysers.

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