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1 Saturn By: Savannah and Christina http://astrotarot.com.hr/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/saturn.jpg

2 Surface Features  Saturn is 292 Degrees Fahrenheit  Color: Butterscotch  Saturn doesn’t have a surface so astronauts cant go in it, the only part they can go on is the large chunks that makes up the planets rings  The surface of Saturn is not solid, but it has several layers of gases and liquid metallic compounds.

3 Location from the sun  900,000,000 miles away from the sun  6 planets from the sun http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~cchieh/cact/fig/planets.jpg

4 Interesting facts  The mass is, 95.18  The volume is 744  Saturn is the second-largest planet in our solar system after Jupiter, which is about 20% larger than Saturn.  It has 18 moons in it  Saturn’s rings are made up of a jumble of small particles.  Nearly 1,600 Saturn’s could fit inside the Sun

5 Comparison Earth Saturn  70 percent of the Earth is covered by water.  30 percent is covered by land.  The Earth is 93 million miles from the Sun on average.  The astrological name for Earth is “Terra.”  The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old.  Saturn has over 30 known Satellites, but many of them are small.  The temperature difference between the poles and the equator is very small on Saturn.  They named Saturn after the Roman God of agriculture.

6 1. Ammonia ice crystals 2. Ammonium hydrosulfide 3. Water ice crystals Earths cores

7 SATURN’s pictures and video http://static.bbc.co.uk/solarsystem/img/ic/640/solar_system_highlights/rings_of_saturn/rings_of _saturn_large.jpg Saturn's Hexagonal Hurricane http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4848559651882522&pid=1.7 http://static.bbc.co.uk/solarsystem/img/ic/640/solar_system_highlights/ rings_of_saturn/rings_of_saturn_large.jpg

8 Thanks for watching!


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