1. By Charlotte Maclean Class 8
SATURN
By Charlotte Maclean
Class 8

2. Pictures! Saturn’s rings are made of chilly frozen ice.
Three of Saturn’s rings are visible from earth using a telescope.
Saturn doesn't only have three rings it has seven rings, four are darker and three are fainter, but recently more rings have been found.

3. Diameter!
Saturn is nine times bigger than Earth. It is km high and 300,000 km wide including the rings. Without the rings it is 120,536 km. Saturn is the second biggest planet in the solar system with Jupiter in first place!

4. Information!
Did you know Saturn has more than 30 moons{they discover more all the time!}Saturn orbits the sun, it takes 29.4 years or you could think of it as 10,759 days. Saturn is about 856 million miles away from the sun, we don’t know for sure because it changes every day. Saturn is the 6th planet away from the sun. Saturn is based on the word Saturday.

5. Amazing facts!
Saturn is best known for the fabulous ring system discovered in 1610 by an astronomer Galileo Galilei.
Saturn has 150 moons and lots are smaller.
A year on Earth is days a year, on Saturn it is 10, days. A day on Earth is 24 hours, a day on Saturn is 10 hours and 39 minutes.

6. Did you know?
Winds in Saturn’s atmosphere travels up to 1,100 miles per hour.
In early 2010, amateur astronomers spotted a massive ammonia blizzard raging on Saturn.
Many of Saturn’s moons are named after Titans, the giant brothers and sisters of the God Saturn. Saturn’s moon Titan is the second largest moon in the solar system.

7. Facts!
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only known moon to have a substantial atmosphere, which is 370 miles deep, 10 times thicker than Earth’s atmosphere.
Travelling to Saturn by car at 70 miles per hour would take 1,292 years when Saturn is actually closest to Earth. It would take 1,595 years when Saturn is furthest away.