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Location:
Saturn at Lancaster Girls' Grammar School, Lancaster
Saturn at Lancaster Girls' Grammar School, Lancaster
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The distance between Lancaster Girls’ Grammar School (‘home’ of Saturn) in Lancashire and the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire (The Sun) was the basis for determining the scale of the Spaced Out project (very close to 1 to 15 million).
Several pupils at the school were involved in designing the surrounding the structure that represents Saturn’s ring system.
These were incorporated into the final design by artist Andrew Loudon who worked with the girls to create this wonderful interpretation of the magnificent ringed planet
The blackness of space between the planet’s disc and its rings has been translated into an integral part of the installation by the dramatic use of ophiopagon planiscapus ‘Nigrescens’ in the planting scheme.
“The respective rationales behind the hard and soft landscaping have come from opposite directions, but it is clear how they compliment one another and unite to form an inspiring piece of art”, explained site designer Ann Picot.
Spaced Out is very grateful to Andrew for donating his time to construct the slate sphere and to the Lancashire and Cumbria branch of the Institute of Physics for their encouragement and financial support.
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(LEFT to RIGHT) Staff and pupils at Lancaster Girls' Grammar School prepare the ground for the artistic representation of the planet Saturn.
Saturn, a lakeland slate sculpture created by Andrew Loudon, has its rings constructed from local pebbles.
The finished represenation of Saturn in the grounds of Lancaster Girls' Grammar School.
- Saturn rotates rapidly on its axis in just over 10 days. It takes 29.5 years to orbit the Sun.
- Saturn's spectacular rings are 270 000 km in diameter, but only a few hundred meters thick.
- In 1659, Christiaan Huygens identified the nature of Saturn’s rings. The particles are only a few centimeters to decameters in size.
- If there was a tank large enough, Saturn could float on water!
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The Cassini/Huygens Mission to Saturn
The Cassini spacecraft was launched on October 15th, 1997. Cassini flew by Venus and Earth before heading toward a flyby of Jupiter . It arrived at Saturn on 1 July 2004 to begin a four-year exploration of the ringed planet and its moons.
Gather the latest facts, figures and images from this mysterious planet, and learn about the UK's involvement with the Huygens/Cassini mission.
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