Planet Saturn

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun, and the
Second largest in the solar system.
It’s surrounded by beautiful rings.

Massive ball made mostly of hydrogen and helium.
It's the farthest planet from Earth discovered by the unaided human eye.

Rich source of scientific discovery e.g. jets of water that spray from Saturn's moon Enceladus or methane lakes on smoggy Titan

The planet is named for the Roman god of agriculture and wealth, who was also the father of Jupiter.

While planet Saturn is an unlikely place for living things its moons like Enceladus and Titan, home to internal oceans, could possibly support life.

Equatorial diameter : 120,500 kilometers (Saturn is 9 times wider than Earth).

It takes sunlight 80 minutes to travel from the Sun to Saturn.

One day on Saturn takes only 10.7 hours.

Saturn has 146 moons in its orbit

At Saturn's center : Core of metals like iron and nickel surrounded by rocky material and other compounds.
It is enveloped by liquid metallic hydrogen inside a layer of liquid hydrogen.

Saturn is the only planet in our solar system with an average density that is less than water.

Gas giant
No true surface, so spacecraft would have nowhere to land.

Saturn's magnetic field is smaller than Jupiter's but still 578 times as powerful as Earth's.

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