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Saturn

This render of Saturn was done in Bryce with a sphere, a flattened torus object, and a simple starfield sky. I used the texture maps provided at http://gw.marketingden.com/planets/saturn.html

The rings texture was rotated 90 degrees along the Z axis in the Material Labs Texture Editor.

Note: The rings are not the exact proportions to the real planet Saturn, but this was as close as I could make it without tweaking the torus in another program.

I adjusted the levels in Photoshop to eliminate the 'washed-out' look of the original render.

Saturn facts:

It's 1.429 billion km from the sun.

It takes 29.46 Earth years to revolve around the sun.

It takes 10 hours and 40 minutes for Saturn to rotate.

You would feel slightly lighter on Saturn because it's gravity is 0.93 times that of Earth.

Saturn has at least 30 moons.

The known moons are Pan, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Epimetheus, Janus, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Telesto, Calypso, Dion, Helene, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, Iapetus, Phoebe, Kiviuq, Ijiraq, Paaliaq, Skadi, Albiorix, Erriapo, Siarnaq, Tarvos, Mundilfari, Suttung, Thrym, and Ymir. Whew, that's a lot of moons. How do they all orbit without crashing is what I'd like to know... By the way, Mundilfari, Suttung, and Thrym are the smallest at only 5.6 km in diameter.


Created by: Azkul.
Tools Used: Bryce
Created on: July 2005 
Image Views: 1,835
Average Views per Day: 1.1
Image Number: 14205
 
 
 

Comments:
 
nidhi from india on Oct 31, 2007 at 9:02 AM said:  

Good work with clearity. May be saturn look alike this image. Good work

Talsi from Western NOrth Carolina USA on May 29, 2006 at 11:30 PM said:  

Very stunning. Hard to take my eyes off of it And thanks for the lesson, very interesting

Alandra from westcoast Canada on Feb 19, 2006 at 11:22 PM said:  

this looks and sounds as if it took a lot of work. Love the clarity of it, the rings especially.

Dud from Louisiana on Jul 12, 2005 at 12:45 PM said:  

You not only reproduced the planet but gave a lot of interesting information. This should be in a science class. It would make the class more interesting then many classes I have seen.


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