Saturday, March 22, 2014

Planet Saturn


Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Named after the Roman god of agriculture, its astronomical symbol (♄) represents the god's sickle. Saturn is a gas giant with an average radius about nine times that of Earth. While only one-eighth the average density of Earth, with its larger volume Saturn is just over 95 times more massive

Monday, March 10, 2014

Flightless birds


Flightless birds are birds that cannot fly. There are about 40 species in existence today, the best known being the ratites and the penguins.Many flightless birds evolved on islands that had few predators from which the birds needed to escape. Others use fast swimming or running as an alternative to flying.