By Joel Crespo General Science

What is Saturn? Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System. Saturn neighbors the planets Jupiter and Venus.

Saturn’s connections to Mythology In Roman Mythology Saturn is the God of Agriculture. Saturn was named Cronus in Greek Mythology.

Interesting facts about Saturn Saturn is the root word for the English word “Saturday” Saturn has 53 named satellites! Saturn’s atmosphere is made of helium and hydrogen.

Saturn’s Moons Saturn’s biggest moon is Titan. Saturn has 62 moons!

Saturn Has rings. Saturn has a very hot interior, reaching 11,700 °C at the core. It also has a magnetic field. The outer atmosphere of Saturn has traces of ammonia, acetylene, ethane, phosphine and methane. Saturn is the least dense of the planets. Saturn’s Physical characteristics

More About Saturn’s Rings A,B,C,D,F.,G are how astronomers had classified Saturn’s rings.

Visiting Saturn Saturn was first visited by NASA's Space Probes, Pioneer 11 in 1979 and later on by the Voyager 1 and the Voyager 2. Voyager confirmed the existence of puzzling radial inhomogeneities in the rings called "spokes" which were first reported by amateur astronomers.

More Saturn Facts Orbit Size (semi-major axis): 1,426,666,422 km Volume: 827,129,915,150,897 km3 Metric: -178 °C English: -288 °F Scientific Notation: 95 K

Founder of Saturn Galileo was the first to observe it with a telescope in 1610; he noted its odd appearance but was confused by it. This was due to he fact that Earth would sometimes orbit through Saturn's rings. Galileo

Saturn Has Clouds! Not many of you may realize this but Saturn has clouds! Most of Saturn’s clouds are mainly consisted of ammonia and ice.

Similarities to Earth Saturn also has winds just like Earth but Saturn is known to have the fastest winds in our Solar System. Saturn contains water too. Both have an atmosphere and clouds.

Differences between Earth and Saturn Size One has a durable environment for life while the other doesn’t Difference in amount of moons between the two Completely different atmospheres

Different views on Saturn Astronomers have not only been able to take regular visible photos of Saturn but also Ultraviolet and Infrared, all thanks to Space Probes.

Saturn’s great White Spot Is also known as the stormy cloud on Saturn. Saturn’s storm happens to appear every 30 Earth years and if astronomers are correct, the next storm is going to hit Saturn in The most intense and famous Storm on Saturn had occurred in 1933.

Thermal Infrared photos of Saturn ` VisibleThermal Infrared Thermal Infrared without rings.

Saturn is Jupiter-like? Saturn has been known to be very similar to Jupiter. Saturn's interior is similar to Jupiter's consisting of a rocky core, a liquid metallic hydrogen layer and a molecular hydrogen layer. Like Jupiter, Saturn is about 75% hydrogen and 25% helium with traces of water, methane, ammonia and "rock“. That’s why scientist call Saturn “Jupiter-like”.

Saturn’s Gravity Saturn is 95 times more massive than Earth, though its gravity is only 1.08% times that on Earth. This means that a person weighing 100 pounds would weigh 108 pounds on Saturn.

CREDITS Thanks for watching! Hope you didn’t fall asleep and hope you enjoyed it. Special thanks to all those who helped me out and also special thanks to Ms. Confer.

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