By: Makayla Powell

 Saturn’s average temperature is -285*. We would be frozen! Brrrrrr…  Wind speeds have been measured more than 1,000 mph. Considerably higher than Jupiter.

 Saturn is made up of 94% hydrogen and 6% helium. It is one of the Gas Planets.

 Saturn has 62 moons. 30 of them are named. 2 of the most common moons are Titan and Enceladus.

 A day on Saturn is 10 hours and 39 minutes. That’s less than half an Earth day.

 A year on Saturn is 10,832 Earth days. That’s 29.7 Earth years.

 Saturn is 890,700,000 miles from the sun. That is 1,433,000,000 kilometers from the sun.

 Saturn is 9.44 times that of Earth. That’s almost ten time that of Earth.  It is the 2 nd biggest Planet

 Saturn’s equilateral diameter is 120,536 kilometers.

 Did you know that Saturn is the 6 th Planet away from the sun?  Saturn’s rings were first seen by Galileo in 1610 during the first telescope observations of this Planet.

   http.nineplanets.org  The Solar System Poster