1. Saturn The Planet Saturn Saturn’s rings

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3. Saturn 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. The Voyager missions found winds, magnetic field, auroras and lightning on the planet similar to Jupiter. Also, the planet has light colored cloud bands (zones) and darker bands (belts) like the larger gas giant.

4. Saturn’s rings Saturn's rings are made of billions of ice particles. Its surface consists of liquid and gas. Four more moons were found in late 2000 and 9 more were discovered recently for a total of 31. Scientists are tracking more objects that may be additional moons. The fascinating ring system observed by Galileo in 1610. At first thought to be a solid ring it is now known to be thousands of water ice particles with some chunks as big as a small car. The rings are held in place by moons that "sheperd" the particles and keep them in a series of ringlets.The rings are named with letters A-G.

5. Facts about 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 The Planet Saturn is the second largest planet.

6. Saturn’s moons The dozens of icy moons orbiting Saturn vary drastically in shape, size, surface age and origin. To date, 53 moons have been officially named. In alphabetic order, they are: Aegaeon, Aegir, Albiorix, Anthe, Atlas, Bebhionn,Bergelmir, Bestla, Calypso, Daphnis, Dione, Enceladus, Epimetheus, Erriapus, Farbauti, Fenrir, Fornjot, Greip, Hati, Helene,Hyperion, Hyrrokkin, Iapetus, Ijiraq, Janus, Jarnsaxa, Kari, Kiviuq, Loge, Methone, Mimas, Mundilfari, Narvi, Paaliaq, Pallene,Pan, Pandora, Phoebe, Polydeuces, Prometheus, Rhea, Siarnaq, Skadi, Skoll, Surtur, Suttung, Tarqeq, Tarvos, Telesto,Tethys, Thrym, Titan and Ymir.

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