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The Planet Saturn is the second largest planet. It is the next planet after Jupiter.
Saturn is named after a Roman God and is famous for its beautiful rings.
It has at least 31 moons. These include Titan, Hyperion, Mimas, Enceladus, Rhea,
and Phoebe.
Facts
about Planet Saturn
* Diameter: 120,660 km. It is
about 10 times larger than our Earth
* Temperature: –178°C
* Distance from Earth: At
its closest, Saturn is 1190.4 million km
* Atmosphere:
Hydrogen and helium
* Surface:
consists of liquid and gas.
* Rotation of its axis:
10 hours, 40 min, 24 sec
* Rotation around the Sun:
29.5 Earth years
Saturn
Space
Probes:
Saturn has been visited in flybys in the 1970s by NASA's Pioneer 11
and in 1980-81 by the Voyager
1 and 2 spacecraft.
The
Cassini
spacecraft, launched in 1997
arrived at Saturn in July 2004.
The Hugens probe will explore the moon -Titan.
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Did you know?
- Saturn's rings are made of billions of ice particles.
Its surface
consists of liquid and gas.
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Books
Mission to
Saturn: Cassini and the Huygens Probe by
David M. Harland
From Amazon.com
Lifting Titan's
Veil : Exploring the Giant Moon of Saturn by
Ralph Lorenz , Jacqueline Mitton
From Amazon.com
Planet Saturn
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