Saturn


You cannot stand on Saturn. It is quite a bit different Earth.
Saturn is made mostly of gases. It has a lot of helium. This Helium is the same kind of gas that you put in balloons.



Saturn is huge. Its the second largest planet of our Solar-System.
It is so big that Earth can fit across it nine times!

Its beautiful rings are not solid. They are made up of bits of ice, dust and rock.

Some of these bits are as small as grains of sand. Some are much larger than tall buildings. Some are up to a kilometer (more than half-a-mile) across.

The rings are huge but thin. The main rings could almost go from Earth to the moon. Yet, they are less than a kilometer thick.

Other planets have rings. Saturn's rings are the only ones that can be seen from Earth. All you need is a small telescope.

If you drop Saturn in water, it wont sink, it will float.

Saturn can float on water because it is mostly made of gas.

The planet is named after Saturn who was the Roman god of farming and agriculture.

It is very windy on Saturn. Winds around the equator can be 1,800 kilometers per hour. That's 1,118 miles per hour! On Earth, the fastest winds "only" get to about 400 kilometers per hour. That's only about 250 miles per hour.

Saturn goes around the Sun very slowly. A year on Saturn is more than 29 Earth years.

Saturn spins on its axis very fast. A day on Saturn is 10 hours and 14 minutes.

The Ringed Planet is so far away from the Sun that it receives much less sunlight than we do here on Earth. Yes, the Sun looks smaller from there.

The day Saturday was named after Saturn.

Saturn's rings reflect 70% of sunlight and are sometimes brighter than the planet.

Saturn gives away more energy than it recives

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