How Hot is it on Saturn?

Answer 1

What is Saturn's surface temperature?
Saturn's surface (well, its clouds) is quite cold, about –220° Fahrenheit. That is because it is so far from the sun.

NOT hot at all.

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Answer 2

temperature is believed to be about −270°F (−168°C),
Saturn's orbit lies between those of Jupiter and Uranus; its mean distance from the sun is c.886 million mi (1.43 billion km), almost twice that of Jupiter, and its period of revolution is about 291⁄2 years. Saturn appears in the sky as a yellow, starlike object of the first magnitude. When viewed through a telescope, it is seen as a golden sphere, crossed by a series of lightly colored bands parallel to the equator.

Saturn, like the other Jovian planets (Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune), is covered with a thick atmosphere composed mainly of hydrogen and helium, with some methane and ammonia; its temperature is believed to be about −270°F (−168°C), suggesting that the ammonia is in the form of ice crystals that constitute the clouds. Like Jupiter's interior, Saturn's consists of a rocky core, a liquid metallic hydrogen layer, and a molecular hydrogen layer. Traces of various ices have also been detected. The wind blows at high speeds–reaching velocities of 1,100 mph (1,770 kph)–across Saturn. The strongest winds are found near the equator and blow mostly in an easterly direction. At higher latitudes, the velocity decreases uniformly and the winds counterflow east and west. Because no permanent markings on the planet are visible, the planet's exact period of rotation has not been determined. However, the period of each atmospheric band varies from 10 hr 14 min at the equator to about 10 hr 38 min at higher latitudes. This rapid rotation causes the largest polar flattening among the planets (over 10%). Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system; its equatorial diameter is c.75,000 mi (120,000 km), and its volume is more than 700 times the volume of the earth. Its mass is about 95 times that of the earth, making Saturn the only planet in the solar system with a density less than that of water. Saturn has been encountered by three space probes: Pioneer 11 (1979), Voyager 1 (1980), and Voyager 2 (1981). The Cassini probe, launched in 1997, is expected to reach Saturn in 2004. Among the discoveries made by the Voyager probes was a magnetosphere (a region of charged particles consisting primarily of electrons, protons, and heavy ions captured partly from the atmosphere of the satellite Titan) that encloses 13 of Saturn's satellites and its ring system.

Answer 3

The prominent hot spot at the bottom of the image is at Saturn's south pole. see link for image

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bd/Saturn_polar_vortex.jpg/180px-Saturn_polar_vortex.jpg

Saturn has a very hot interior, reaching 12,000 Kelvin (11,700°C) at the core, and it radiates more energy into space than it receives from the Sun. Most of the extra energy is generated by the Kelvin-Helmholtz mechanism (slow gravitational compression), but this alone may not be sufficient to explain Saturn's heat production. An additional proposed mechanism by which Saturn may generate some of its heat is the "raining out" of droplets of helium deep in Saturn's interior, the droplets of helium releasing heat by friction as they fall down through the lighter hydrogen.

Answer 4

The mean temperature on Saturn is -140°C (-220°F).

Answer 5

Hotter than Catherine Bach!

Answer 6

this is a site i came across on google http://filer.case.edu/~sjr16/advanced/saturn.html

Google this term
temperature on saturn, this will bring you all the info you could ever want

hope this helps

Answer 7

Mean surface temperature
-139.15 C (-218.47° F)

Answer 8

Its not hot. Its freezing cold.

Answer 9

-200 below zero

Answer 10

82k to 143k