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. But enhanced-colour images (shown above) allow us to study the bands across which run parallel to the equator much like Jupiter's, indicating violent winds.
Saturn is one of the windiest places in the Solar System, and wind speeds have been clocked at a staggering 1800 kilometres per hour at the equator. Occasionally, violent 'white' storms break through the cloud layers, each one bigger than Earth. The last of these was observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in 1994. Smaller storms occur as darker spots, and have been shown in recent Cassini-Huygens images.
2007-01-18 14:43:15
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answered by Anonymous
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Saturn is one of the windiest places in the Solar System, and wind speeds have been clocked at a staggering 1800 kilometres per hour at the equator. Occasionally, violent 'white' storms break through the cloud layers, each one bigger than Earth. The last of these was observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in 1994. Smaller storms occur as darker spots, and have been shown in recent Cassini-Huygens images.
2007-01-18 14:45:26
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answered by Anonymous
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Cold, dry and gaseous. I wouldn't recommend setting up a summer home there, the debris from the rings around the planet will probably corrode the stucco on the side of the house.
2007-01-18 14:41:06
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answered by Detroit Diva 3
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a balmy 87 degrees with a slight solar wind drifiting across the plains.
2007-01-18 14:41:09
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answered by user name 5
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn
2007-01-18 14:41:43
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answered by Anonymous
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Very hot gas. You would die before you reached the surface !
Yours;
Jonnie
2007-01-18 14:44:26
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answered by Jonnie 4
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mostly hydrogen and helium
2007-01-18 14:43:09
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answered by civicsound 3
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who cares
2007-01-18 14:45:33
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answered by max c 2
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