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Saturn

Discover interesting facts about Saturn, the second largest planet in the solar system named after the Greek god Saturnus, including its moons, rings, composition, and more.

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Saturn

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  1. Saturn By: Abby Cunningham Michelle Lucie Scott Dietzler

  2. Saturn was named after the Greek god Saturnus, the god of time

  3. Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system It’s the 6th planet from the sun The surface is just liquid and gas

  4. Out of all the planets, Saturn has the lowest density It has 33 moons, and Titan, the biggest moon, is bigger than the planet Mercury There could be life on Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons

  5. Saturn is the windiest planet; it’s winds get up to 400m/s The diameter is 120,536 km Density= 0.69 g/cm3 The distance from the sun is 1,429,000,000 km Mass= 5.688x10 26kg

  6. 3rd brightest planet It takes 29 years, 167 days, and 6.7 hours to orbit the sun If you tried to land on Saturn, you would pass right through

  7. The origins of Saturn’s rings is unknown Fast winds in upper atmosphere combined with rising heat causes the planet’s yellow and gold banding Saturn’s rings disappear once every 14 years

  8. Saturn is the root for the English word “Saturday” Two prominent rings and one faint ring can be seen from Earth

  9. Saturn has been visited four times by spacecrafts It was 1st photographed in 1981 with a Hubble telescope Saturn has only seven rings The atmosphere is 97% hydrogen, 3% helium, and 0.5% methane

  10. Saturn radiates more energy into space than it receives from the sun The temperature at its core is 178 degrees Celsius A full day on Saturn is only 10 hours, 40 minutes, and 24 seconds

  11. It’s rings are made of ice and dust Lighting occurs in Saturn's clouds

  12. A 100 pound object on Earth would weigh 116 pounds on Saturn

  13. Saturn is often called the jewel of the solar system

  14. The End The End The End The End

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