Meghan Murphy April 13, 2011

Galileo discovered Saturn in It is 1.4 billion km from the Sun. It revolution is 29.5 earth years. It’s day is 10 hours 47 seconds and 6 seconds.

Saturn’s composition is 96.3% hydrogen and 3.7% helium and trace gases. It’s mass is A_ in the corner kg. If you weighed 70 lbs. on earth you would weigh 74.4 lbs. it’s kind of the same. Saturn is equivalent to 95 earths! The temperature of Saturn is between - 191C and -130C.

Some land features of Saturn are that it has a rocky core that has metallic hydrogen, trace amounts of ammonia, and hydrosulfide crystals. Some of these are also in the atmosphere. Saturn is a yellowish planet with a green and orange here or there. Saturn has 60 moons and most of them have names. Saturn’s most known moon is Titan.

The Cassini was sent on October 15, It found lakes on the moon Titan. It focused on the planet itself mostly.

Fact: Saturn is actually a flattened ball. It spins so quickly on its axis that the planet flattens itself out. Fact: The first astronomers thought that the rings of Saturn were moons. Fact: Saturn has been visited by a spacecraft 4 times only. Fact: Nobody knows how old Saturn’s rings are. Fact: You can see Saturn with your eye.

Kurth, William S. "Cassini." World Book Student. World Book, Web. 13 Apr