Saturn
Saturn is the second biggest planet in our Solar System. It may look really innocent but you should meet it's ugly inside. Inside is all cold and really windy. Nothing survives in Jupiter. Jupiter is a thing called a Gas Planet. On our planet, Earth, the dirt is solid and we can stand on it. But on Jupiter, it's all winds, gas, and air. Well, not the air we survive on.
Saturn is 890,700,000 miles away from the Sun and it has a mass of 568.3E24 and the radius of 36,184. Pretty big, right?
It has over 31 moons and it's biggest moon is Titan. Also, the rings of Saturn are not really rings, they're an asteroid belt full of rocks and debris. Cool, huh? So one time, NASA sent a robot named The Voyager into space to check out Saturn. What The Voyager found was really rare. It found a vortex on Saturn. That was in 1980. Scientists tried to make it go away, but couldn't. It's 2015 now and it's still there.
It has over 31 moons and it's biggest moon is Titan. Also, the rings of Saturn are not really rings, they're an asteroid belt full of rocks and debris. Cool, huh? So one time, NASA sent a robot named The Voyager into space to check out Saturn. What The Voyager found was really rare. It found a vortex on Saturn. That was in 1980. Scientists tried to make it go away, but couldn't. It's 2015 now and it's still there.
A Stormy Day
Saturn has really fast winds and really bad storms. Winds go about 900 MPH. Saturn runs on water, so it would be rainy, windy, and stormy. Not a great place to go on vacation, right?
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Mass: 568,319,000,000,000,000 billion kg (95.16 x Earth)
Equatorial Diameter: 120,536 km Polar Diameter: 108,728 km Equatorial Circumference: 365,882 km Known Moons: 62 Notable Moons: Titan, Rhea & Enceladus more info Known Rings: 30+ (7 Groups) Orbit Distance: 1,426,666,422 km (9.58 AU) Orbit Period: 10,755.70 Earth days (29.45 Earth years) Surface Temperature: -139 °C First Record: 8th century BC Recorded By: Assyrians |
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