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   From: echomko_at_@polaris.umuc.edu   
      
   Joseph Lazio (jlazio@adams.patriot.net) wrote:   
   : >>>>> "RK" == Rodney Kelp  writes:   
      
   : RK> When they going to take a look at the surface of Saturn?   
      
   : They aren't, and they can't.  In all likelihood, Saturn does not have   
   : a "surface."  Rather, the atmosphere just keeps getting denser and   
   : denser as you go deeper.   
      
   Wouldn't it make sense that Saturn, as well as the other gas planets, has   
   a thick atmosphere, followed by a liquid layer and then a solid layer   
   (lithoshere). Unlike earth, they would be gradual from gas to liquid and   
   liquid to solid. Just a theory of course.   
      
   Eric   
      
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