1. ps://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/moons/

2. Saturn was named after the Roman god of agriculture.
Saturn introduced agriculture to his people by teaching them how to farm the land.
Saturn was also the Roman god of time; Saturn is the slowest of all planets
Saturn was the father of Jupiter
Where we get the name Saturday

3. Saturn’s Atmosphere
The composition of Saturn is similar to that of Jupiter. Gas and hot liquid hydrogen.
Even though it is almost as big as Jupiter it is less dense; the liquid gas is packed together quite loosely.
Saturn has been loosing helium from its atmosphere and gaining it in its center; making it like a large helium balloon
If you could find a ocean big enough, Saturn would float in it
Saturn also rotates rapidly, once every 11 hours or so.
Saturn takes 29.7 years to revolve around the sum
Saturn’s weather is like that on Jupiter, although the contrast between different bands is much less.

4. Saturn also rotates rapidly, once every 11 hours or so.
Saturn takes 29.7 years to revolve around the sun

5. Saturn The most obvious feature of Saturn is its large ring system
When Galileo saw Saturn in 1610, he was confused about the shape.
Thought it had “ears”, “bumps” or handles like a tea cup
Mystery solved, 1655, Dutch astronomer Christian Huygens (telescope), what Galileo saw were numerous rings with spaces between them
Each ring is made up of billions of tiny rocks; some as small as a grain of sand and others as large as a house; all orbiting around Saturn

6. Saturn
The rings are very thin, and gaps are evident, even from the ground. They consist of fragments of ice and ice- covered rocks.

7. Saturn Rings Saturn’s rings are extremely thin
Though they stretch 124,000 miles they are only 100 feet thick
Food for thought: Trying to see them from the edge is like trying to spot the edge of a CD from 20 miles away.

8. Saturn
Small satellites can cause some of the rings to ripple or to have braided structure.

9. Saturn
Small satellites can cause some of the rings to ripple or to have braided structure.

10. Saturn’s Rings
From Voyager, we know the rings are composed of hundreds or thousands of “ringlets”.

11. Saturn
The large dark gap in Saturn's rings is called Cassini's division.

12. Other Saturn Facts
The rings tilt from 29 to zero degrees; because they tilt they are not always seen from Earth as rings (thus Galileo’s bumps)
The patterns of the rings are caused by the gravitational tug of moons.
“Shepherding Moons”-Promethus and Pandora orbit Saturn on either side of one of its narrow rings

13. Saturn host at least 62 moons.
Only 7 are spherical.

14. Saturn’s Moons
Saturn has 1 very large moon (Titan), 10 moderate size moons, and a few dozen much smaller ones.

15. Saturn’s Moons
Saturn has 1 very large moon (Titan), 10 moderate size moons, and a few dozen much smaller ones.
Titan is the only moon with an atmosphere.

16. Titan
Titan’s atmosphere is mostly hydrogen with a substantial amount of methane.
There are organic molecules, but it is probably too cold for life to have evolved.

17. Titan
There are lakes of liquid methane, as well as large flat areas.

18. Mimas…Herschel crater
123 miles wide

19. Rhea is an icy body that is heavily cratered
It has a small rocky core with the rest made of ice
Rhea

20. Iapetus
Looks like a peach

21. Saturn
Voyager 1 (1980) and Voyager 2 (6 months later 1981) flybys gave us data a pictures of Saturn and its moons

22. SATURN Seasons last more than 7 Earth years!!! ATMOSPHERE: Hyrogen
Helium
Scientists think that Saturn’s rings are formed by natural satellites breaking up.
RINGS:
Ice, water, and dust from satellites which broke up near Saturn
Thickness: meters
Different brightness
Gaps in between some rings, others are braided
Saturn could FLOAT due to its extremely low density 
Seasons last more than 7 Earth years!!!