SATURN HAS A WEIRDLY NEAT,
SYMMETRICAL MAGNETIC FIELD
Saturn really stands out among the solar system planets, and do not just because of its glorious system of rings it's the magnetic field is also peculiar; unlike other planets, with their off-axis fields, Saturn's magnetic field is almost perfectly symmetrical around its rotational axis.
Planetary magnetic fields are usually generated inside the plane, by something called a dynamic - a rotating, connecting, and electrically conducted fluid that converts kinetic energy into magnetic energy, spinning a magnetic field out into space because Saturn's magnetic field has been well characterized by the Sabin Stanley, planetary physicists and her colleague planetary scientist Chi Yan of Johns Hopkins University decided to use it to try reverse engineer what's happening in Saturn mysterious, opaque interior. One thing we discovered was how sensitive the model was to very specific things like temperature, Stanley said and that means we have a really interesting probe of Saturn deep interior as far as 20,000 kilometers down (12,430 miles) it's a kind of X-ray vision.
In addition, a convection stable layer of helium rain extended out to 70 percent of the radius of the planet is favorable for reproducing the Cassini observations. This is a noted new concept at the temperatures and pressures found inside Saturn. Hydrogen and Helium gaseous become liquid, at lower depths, the helium could separate out, forming a stable layer that rains in inwards towards the planetary core at the boundary of this helium layer, the flow of heat changes according to latitude the equatorial latitudes are much hotter, and temperatures and the polar regions at high latitudes are much lower.
''Even though the observations we have from Saturn look perfectly symmetrical, in our computer simulations we can fully interrogate the field''. Stanley explained Meanwhile, Saturn interior weather reports are looking soggy.
