Are there planets that are not composed of rock, like Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars? Are there planets where there is no land, just all nothingness? Yes, there are, they are known as a Gas Giants, they are large celestial bodies that are instead made up of gases. They may have a solid core, and their storm-laden atmosphere is very thick. They are all so large they could fit ten Earths.

The planet Saturn is said to be the second largest among the known planets, having a diameter of almost 75,000 miles. It is also considered as the sixth planet to orbit around the sun at a distance of about 885 million miles. For an orbit to be completed, a calculation of almost 28.5 years should be taken despite the fact that its rotation is just for over 10.5 hours. Considered as a gas giant, it is known for having no [...]

Saturn is perhaps one of the distinguishable planets in the solar system, thanks to its every prominent ring system. The sixth planet (if distinguished from the sun) and also largest planet in the solar system next to Jupiter, it is one of the four gas giant planets, with Neptune, Jupiter, and Uranus as the other three. The planet is actually named after Roman god Saturn, the god of agriculture and harvest. Saturn has a Greek god equivalent—Cronos, Zeus’ Titan father. [...]

What makes Saturn huge is its atmosphere. Although it has a surface, it is not as solid as other planets. Saturn’s surface is so dense that the gravity on it is particularly very weak and is only 91% compared to that of Earth’s. It will not allow anyone to take a stroll on the planet. The pressure is very high that not only will freezing temperatures turn objects into solid ice but the high level of pressure will crush objects [...]

Saturn, named after the Roman god of the same name, is the Solar System’s second largest planet. In Roman mythology, Saturn is the father of Zeus (Uranus, the planet after it, is the father of Saturn in the same mythology). It was also part of the five classical planets—planets that were known during ancient times due to its visibility from the Earth. Because the discovery was made during the early times, it isn’t possible to identity that in particular discovered [...]

There are 62 moons orbiting Saturn. The moons of Saturn vary not only in size but also in composition and shape. The largest of the moons of Saturn is the aptly named Titan, more than 5,000 km across and is bigger than Mercury.

Out of the four ringed planets in the solar system, Saturn has the most complex ring system. The materials that compose the Saturn rings are mostly water ice combined with chemicals and dust particles. The size of these water ice ranges from micrometers to a few meters. The first person to ever observe the Saturn rings is Galileo Galilei in 1610. However, with his limited technology, he wasn’t able to truly understand what he saw. It was in 1655 when [...]

Saturn’s outer atmosphere is composed of 96.3% molecular hydrogen and 3.25% helium. The rest are made up of small amounts of acetylene, ammonia, phosphine, methane, and ethane. The clouds located at the upper part of Saturn are made up of ammonia crystals. The clouds located on the lower levels of the atmosphere are made off either h2o or ammonium hydrosulfide. Helium is notably deficient on Saturn.

Saturn has long fascinated people because of the mystique of its rings, which circle the planet’s equator and make it one of the most visually beautiful sights in our Solar System. These rings are composed of bands of small water ice-coated particles and are 250,000 km wide but only as thin as a few tens of meters in some places. The origin of the rings remains unclear, although there are two main theories: that they are the remains of a [...]

Saturn’s average distance from the Sun is 1,400,000,000 km. The average orbital speed of Saturn is 9.69 km/s. It takes the earth 365 days to orbit the sun, Saturn takes 10,759 Earth days (or about 29½ years), to revolve around the sun; a year on Saturn is equivalent to 29.5 Earth years.