Saturn By: Chumani wayd
About Saturn In roman Saturn is the god of agriculture. The associated Greek god, Cronus , was the son of Uranus and Gaia and the father of Zeus (Jupiter). Saturn is the root of the English word "Saturday"
More about it Diameter is 120,536 Distance from the sun 1,429,400,000 Mass 5.68e26 rings are extraordinarily thin: though they're 250,000 km or more in diameter they're less than one km thick. Temperature -178 degrees celsius
More about it Surface: consists of liquid and gas. Rotation of its axis: 10 hrs, 40 min, 24 sec Rotation around the sun: 29.5 earth years
What it’s made of about 75% hydrogen 25% helium traces of water, methane, ammonia and "rock",
When it was discovered Saturn was first visited by NASA's Pioneer 11 in 1979 and later by Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Cassini arrived on July 1, 2004 and will orbit Saturn for at least four years.
Names of Saturn's rings D-Ring Guerin Division C-Ring Maxwell Division B-Ring Cassini Division
More names Huygens Gap A-Ring Encke Minima Encke Division Keeler Gap F-Ring G-Ring E-Ring
moons It has at least 30 moons. Titan Hyperion Mimas Enceladus Rhea Phoebe
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