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WEATHER OF SATURN
Saturn’s weather systems are known for being extreme, giving rise to features that can be seen from great distances. It’s high winds periodically create massive oval-shaped storms, , hurricanes, and that are visible in both the northern and southern polar regions.
While planet Saturn is an unlikely place for living things to take hold, the same is not true of some of its many moons. like Enceladus and Titan, home to internal oceans, could possibly support life
Saturn's moon Enceladus has geysers that shoot water vapor out into space. It freezes and falls back to the surface as snow. Some of the ice also escapes Enceladus to become part of Saturn's rings.
Saturn is much colder than Jupiter being further from the Sun, with an average temperature of -140 degrees C . Wind speeds on Saturn are extremely high, having been measured at slightly more than 1,000 mph, considerably higher than Jupiter.
Hydrogen makes up nearly all of the atmosphere, with small amounts of helium and much lesser amounts of methane and ammonia. Saturn also has clouds made of ammonia ice crystals, but the clouds tops are considerably colder than Jupiter's approaching -93 degrees C
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SATURN
The rings only look solid. They are really a jumbled mess made up of millions of pieces of ice and rock, in size from tiny grains of dust to chunks bigger than a house
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Saturn is the second largest planet in our Solar System. Only Jupiter is larger. Saturn is about 75 thousand miles (120,000 km) in diameter and is almost ten times the diameter of Earth. About 764 Earths could fit inside Saturn.
More rings or ringlets could still be discovered. Saturn is much larger than Earth. More than 700 Earths could fit inside Saturn
ORBIT OF SATURN
Like Jupiter and most of the other planets, Saturn has a regular orbit , its motion around the Sun is prograde
Saturn rotates around the sun at about (21,675 miles per hour), or a period of about 29.42 years
A planet's day is the time it takes to rotate or spin once on its axis. Saturn rotates faster than Earth so a day on Saturn is shorter than a day on Earth. A day on Saturn is about 10.7 hours long while a day on Earth is 23.934 hours long.
Saturn's orbit would be shorter because the closer a planet is to the Sun, the less time it takes for it to go around the Sun. It takes less time because the length of the orbit is shorter , but it also moves faster in its orbit. Thanks to gravity, it has to move faster in its orbit to stay in orbit
Saturn has the second-shortest day in the solar system. One day on Saturn takes only 10.7 hours and Saturn makes a complete orbit around the Sun in about 29.4 Earth years (10,756 Earth days).
RINGS
But what nature gives it can also take away. Saturn's rings are disappearing. This won't happen in our lifetime – scientists estimate the rings could vanish in fewer than 100 million years. The particles that make up the icy rings are losing a battle with the sun's radiation and the gravity of Saturn.
Saturn's rings are pieces of comets, asteroids, or shattered moons that broke up before they reached the planet, torn apart by Saturn's powerful gravity.
Saturn has the most spectacular ring system, with seven rings and many gaps and divisions in-between them.
With thousands of beautiful ringlets, Saturn is unique among the planets. It is not the only planet to have rings – made of chunks of ice and rock – but none are as spectacular as Saturn's. Like fellow gas giant Jupiter, Saturn is a massive ball made mostly of hydrogen and helium.
Saturn's rings formed between 10 million and 100 million years ago. From our planet's perspective, that means Saturn's rings may have formed during the age of dinosaurs
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