Past Missions (including nationality and year of launch) Hydrogen (75%), Helium (25%), traces of other elements like methane, ammonia and water ice. Saturn's, they would reach about three quarters of the way to the If Earth had rings than spanned as far out as However, a day on Saturn is about 10 and a half hours. Fact ThirteenĪ year on Saturn would take almost thirtyĮarth years. In comparison,Įarth and Mercury would sink to the bottom quickest. Saturn has such a low density (meaning that its particles are far apart) that, if there was an ocean big enough, Saturn would float on it. The first sounds to be recorded from any other world in the solar system were recorded from Saturn's moon Of course, it's too cold to survive there but It is thought that Titan's atmosphere is so thick, and its gravity so weak, that humans beings could strap on a set of Titan in 1655, also invented the pendulum clock. Fact NineĬhristiaan Huygens, the Dutch astronomer who discovered Saturn's moon Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is the only moon in the Solar System to possess an atmosphere. Saturn is twice as far away from the Sun as Great spot on Saturn, although the planet does have stormy weather. Fact Sixĭespite its similarities to Jupiter, there is no Likely occurring in ten of millions of years time. This isn't likely to happen anytime soon, more than They will either disperse (spread out) into space or get sucked into the planet by its pull of gravity. It is believed that Saturn's rings will one day disappear. At other times, they are flat on when seen fromĮarth and are hardly visible. Sometimes, they can appear like 'ears' sticking out of the planet. Saturn's rings orbit the planet at different tilts. Saturn's rings may be particles of an old moon orbiting the planet, smashed apart in a collision millions years ago. Saturn's main difference to Jupiter is the amazing Like Jupiter, it is mostly made up of hydrogen and Jupiter, with similar, but less distinctive, surface patterns. It is so big that Earth could fit into it 755 times. Saturn is the second largest planet in the Solar System after
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