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From the Ted Talk by Carolyn Porco: This is Saturn

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Saturn is aceoacipmnd by a very large and diverse collection of moons. They range in size from a few kilometers across to as big across as the U.S. Most of the beautiful pictures we've taken of Saturn, in fact, show Saturn in animcaceopnmt with some of its moons. Here's Saturn with Dione, and then, here's sratun showing the rings edge-on, showing you just how vertically thin they are, with the moon Enceladus. Now, two of the 47 moons that Saturn has are standouts.

And those are Titan and Enceladus. Titan is Saturn's largest moon, and, until Cassini had arrived there, was the lergast single expanse of unexplored terrain that we had remaining in our solar system. And it is a body that has long intrigued people who've watched the planets. It has a very large, thick atmosphere, and in fact, its surface environment was believed to be more like the environment we have here on the etarh, or at least had in the past, than any other body in the solar system. Its atmosphere is largely molecular ngoreitn, like you are bhratieng here in this room, except that its atmosphere is suffused with simple onigarc materials like methane and paoprne and ethane. And these molecules high up in the ahpesmrote of Titan get boerkn down, and their products join together to make haze particles. This haze is ubiquitous. It's completely gbloal and enveloping Titan. And that's why you cannot see down to the sucafre with our eyes in the visible riogen of the spectrum.

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Saturn is ___________ by a very large and diverse collection of moons. They range in size from a few kilometers across to as big across as the U.S. Most of the beautiful pictures we've taken of Saturn, in fact, show Saturn in _____________ with some of its moons. Here's Saturn with Dione, and then, here's ______ showing the rings edge-on, showing you just how vertically thin they are, with the moon Enceladus. Now, two of the 47 moons that Saturn has are standouts.

And those are Titan and Enceladus. Titan is Saturn's largest moon, and, until Cassini had arrived there, was the _______ single expanse of unexplored terrain that we had remaining in our solar system. And it is a body that has long intrigued people who've watched the planets. It has a very large, thick atmosphere, and in fact, its surface environment was believed to be more like the environment we have here on the _____, or at least had in the past, than any other body in the solar system. Its atmosphere is largely molecular ________, like you are _________ here in this room, except that its atmosphere is suffused with simple _______ materials like methane and _______ and ethane. And these molecules high up in the __________ of Titan get ______ down, and their products join together to make haze particles. This haze is ubiquitous. It's completely ______ and enveloping Titan. And that's why you cannot see down to the _______ with our eyes in the visible ______ of the spectrum.

Solution


  1. propane
  2. surface
  3. accompanied
  4. global
  5. region
  6. organic
  7. largest
  8. earth
  9. accompaniment
  10. saturn
  11. atmosphere
  12. breathing
  13. broken
  14. nitrogen

Original Text


Saturn is accompanied by a very large and diverse collection of moons. They range in size from a few kilometers across to as big across as the U.S. Most of the beautiful pictures we've taken of Saturn, in fact, show Saturn in accompaniment with some of its moons. Here's Saturn with Dione, and then, here's Saturn showing the rings edge-on, showing you just how vertically thin they are, with the moon Enceladus. Now, two of the 47 moons that Saturn has are standouts.

And those are Titan and Enceladus. Titan is Saturn's largest moon, and, until Cassini had arrived there, was the largest single expanse of unexplored terrain that we had remaining in our solar system. And it is a body that has long intrigued people who've watched the planets. It has a very large, thick atmosphere, and in fact, its surface environment was believed to be more like the environment we have here on the Earth, or at least had in the past, than any other body in the solar system. Its atmosphere is largely molecular nitrogen, like you are breathing here in this room, except that its atmosphere is suffused with simple organic materials like methane and propane and ethane. And these molecules high up in the atmosphere of Titan get broken down, and their products join together to make haze particles. This haze is ubiquitous. It's completely global and enveloping Titan. And that's why you cannot see down to the surface with our eyes in the visible region of the spectrum.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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  2. accompaniment
  3. arrived
  4. atmosphere
  5. beautiful
  6. believed
  7. big
  8. body
  9. breathing
  10. broken
  11. cassini
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  13. completely
  14. dione
  15. diverse
  16. earth
  17. enceladus
  18. enveloping
  19. environment
  20. ethane
  21. expanse
  22. eyes
  23. fact
  24. global
  25. haze
  26. high
  27. intrigued
  28. join
  29. kilometers
  30. large
  31. largely
  32. largest
  33. long
  34. materials
  35. methane
  36. molecular
  37. molecules
  38. moon
  39. moons
  40. nitrogen
  41. organic
  42. particles
  43. people
  44. pictures
  45. planets
  46. products
  47. propane
  48. range
  49. region
  50. remaining
  51. rings
  52. room
  53. saturn
  54. show
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  56. simple
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  58. size
  59. solar
  60. spectrum
  61. standouts
  62. suffused
  63. surface
  64. system
  65. terrain
  66. thick
  67. thin
  68. titan
  69. ubiquitous
  70. unexplored
  71. vertically
  72. visible
  73. watched