Saturn — A Magnificent Ringed World 



CRAPE RING 

 10,808 MILES BROAD 



INNER BRIOHT RING 

 19.169 MILES BROAO 



OUTER BRIGHT RtNG 

 il,054 MILES 

 BROAD I 



COMPARATIVE SIZE 

 OF 

 THE EARTH 



From a drawing by Scrivt^r. Bulum in the illustrated London News with additions by Popular Scienxe Monthly 



Here we have the most wonderful creation of the visible universe— Saturn and his rings of flying 

 myriads of small particles, attended by his eight largest satellites. Saturn is nine times greater in 

 diameter than the earth. Through a telescope we discern simply a vaporous atmosphere, tor- 

 mented by an intensely heated core forever hidden from our gaze. Cloud vapor is incessantly 

 shot vertically into the upper atmosphere layers by internal convulsions. The rings are com- 

 posed of nothing more than a flight of myriads of small particles around their primary, the inner 

 ones revolving in five hours. Each particle, therefore, is a tiny moon 



