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Facts About Saturn
1 – Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun, and it’s the second-largest planet in our solar system.
2 – Saturn has a diameter of 74,000 miles.
3 – The average temperature on Saturn is -300 degrees Fahrenheit.
4 – A day on Saturn lasts 10 hours and 14 minutes.
5 – There are over 100 moons in our solar system that orbit around it.
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6 – It takes about 29 years for one rotation of its rings to happen, which means they could be up to 1 billion years old!
7 – In 2006, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft became the first probe to orbit Saturn.
8 – Saturn was named after an ancient Roman god Saturn.
9 – The most famous storm on Saturn is called “the great white spot” because of its coloration.
10 – Saturn was first discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei.
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11 – The rings around Saturn are made up of chunks of ice and rock that come from comets or asteroids.
12 – It’s a gas giant, meaning it has no solid surface and is made up mostly of hydrogen. The atmosphere on Saturn is mostly composed of hydrogen gas with small amounts of helium, methane, ammonia.
13 – There are many moons orbiting around Saturn including Titan which is larger than Mercury.
Saturn has at least 62 moons, including Titan (the second largest moon in our solar system), Iapetus (which has one side always facing toward earth), Rhea (one of its most heavily cratered satellites), Mimas (the smallest known satellite orbiting saturn), Dione (a world covered with craters and ice geysers) and Enceladus (an active water world).
14 – The distance between Saturn and Earth varies because they orbit around the sun in different ways.
15 – The gravity on Saturn is weaker than on Earth – people would weigh less there.
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16 – There are many moons orbiting Saturn including Titan, Rhea, Dione, Iapetus and Hyperion.
17 – Saturn has been known since ancient times as a planet that can be seen with the naked eye.
18 – It takes 10 hours for light to reach Earth from Saturn.
19 – Its rings are at least 60 feet thick.
20 – The Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn discovered that Titan, one of its moons, has a thick atmosphere and oceans of liquid methane.
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21 – Saturn’s moon Mimas was named after the mythological giant who battled against Zeus
22 – The word “saturnine” derives from saturn, meaning gloomy or sullen – this adjective is often used to describe people with depression or low energy levels
23 – In ancient Roman religion and astrology, Saturday was dedicated to the god Saturnus (or Kronos) as a time for rest and renewal
24 – According to NASA, Saturn’s rings are made up of billions of pieces of ice and rock ranging in size from dust grains to house-sized boulders
25 – One of Saturn’s moons – Titan – has enough liquid natural gas (LNG) reserves to cover all US energy needs for 300 years!
