SATURN 🪐
MOONS🌕
Saturn has 146 moons
Titan
Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system. Saturn’s biggest moon. Bigger than the planet Mercury.
The Rings of Saturn
Titan has a radius of about 1,600 miles. Titan is about 759,000 miles from Saturn
The ring particles are almost entirely made out of water ice.There is still no consensus as to their mechanism of formation. Although theoretical models indicated that the rings were likely to have formed early in the Solar System's history, newer data from Cassini suggested they formed relatively late.
Titan takes 15 days and 22 hours to complete a full orbit of Saturn. Titan is also tidally locked in synchronous rotation with Saturn
Icy moon
Gravity and Mass
Atmosphere
The mass of Saturn is 95 times the mass of Earth. However, Saturn's gravity is only 1.08 times the gravity on Earth because Saturn is such a large planet. An object weighing 100 lbs on Earth would weigh 108 lbs on Saturn.
Saturn is approximately 75% hydrogen and 25% helium with traces of other substances like methane and water ice. Saturn's atmosphere,although similar to Jupiter's, is much less interesting to look at from a distance
The gravity on Saturn is 10.44 m/s², compared to Earth's 9.807 m/s².
Distance from the sun
Saturn is 1.4 billion kilometers (886 million miles) away from the Sun. In other words its 9.5 astronomical units from the Sun, 1 astronomical unit is the distance from the Sun to the Earth. From this distance, it takes sunlight 80 minutes to travel from the Sun to Saturn.
Time to orbit the sun.
Saturn revolves or orbits around the Sun once every 29.4 Earth years, or once every 10,755.7 Earth days. Saturn travels at an average speed of 21,637 miles per hour or 34,821 kilometers per hour in its orbit around the Sun.
Length of Day
One day on Saturn is equivalent to 10 hours and 33 minutes, and 38 seconds. One year on Saturn would be equivalent to 29 Earth years.
Its atmosphere is nitrogen rich
orbital velocity
(2 pi )/10731= 9.68 km/s
The dense main rings extend from 7,000 km to 80,000 km away from Saturn's equator. With an estimated local thickness of as little as 10 metres and as much as 1 km.