10 facts of Saturn?

Answer 1

1. Equatorial radius: 60,268 km
2. Polar radius: 54,364 km
3. Oblateness: 0.097 96
4. Surface area: 4.27×1010 km²
5. Volume: 8.27×1014 km³
6. Mass: 5.6846×1026 kg
7. Mean density: 0.6873 g/cm³
8. Equatorial surface gravity: 8.96 m/s2
9. Escape velocity: 35.49 km/s
10. Axial tilt: 26.73°

Answer 2

1. Saturn lies approximately 10.053 Astronomical Units from the sun.

2. It takes Saturn 29.46 earth years to make one complete revolution around the sun.

3. Saturn does not rotate at a uniform rate- different lattitudes rotate faster or slower than each other.

4. Saturn has a mass of 95 earths and its volume would hold 763.59 earths.

5. Saturn has a density of 0.6873 g/cm3, meaning it is less dense than water. If you had a large enough bathtub of water, saturn would float on the surface.

6. Saturn's atmosphere has the following composition: >93% hydrogen
>5% helium
0.2% methane
0.1% water vapor
0.01% ammonia
0.0005% ethane
0.0001% phosphine

7. As of 2006, there were 56 confirmed moons, with 3 more in dispute.

8. Saturn's largest moon is called Titan and was discovered on March 25, 1655. It is the only moon in our solar system to have a dense atmosphere.

9. There have been 4 human made space probes to examine the planet: Pioneer 11, Voyager 1 and 2 and the Cassinni-Huygens spacecraft.

10. Saturn is best known for its planetary rings. It has been one of the most photographed planets in our solarsystem because of its beauty (the beauty part is someone's opinion, not a fact - but it is one of the most photographed planets)

Answer 3

Saturn is an oblate spheroid, that is, it is flattened at the poles and bulges at the equator.

Saturn's interior is similar to Jupiter's, having a rocky core at the center, a liquid metallic hydrogen layer above that, and a molecular hydrogen layer above that.
Saturn's atmosphere exhibits a banded pattern similar to Jupiter's (in fact, the nomenclature is the same), but Saturn's bands are much fainter and are also much wider near the equator.

Saturn's winds are among the Solar System's fastest. Voyager data indicates peak easterly winds of 500 m/s (1116 mph).

Saturn's northern hemisphere appears a bright blue, similar to Uranus.

Saturn has a warm polar vortex, and is the only planet in the solar system known to do so.

Saturn is probably best known for its planetary rings, which make it visually one of the most remarkable objects in the solar system.

In 1675, Giovanni Domenico Cassini determined that Saturn's ring was actually composed of multiple smaller rings with gaps between them; the largest of these gaps was later named the Cassini Division.

Saturn has a large number of moons. The precise figure is uncertain, as the orbiting chunks of ice in Saturn's rings are all technically moons, and it is difficult to draw a distinction between a large ring particle and a tiny moon.

Saturn was first visited by Pioneer 11 in September 1979.

In Hindu astrology, there are nine planets, known as Navagrahas. Saturn is known as "Sani" or "Shani", the Judge among all the planets, and determines everyone according to their own performed deeds bad or good.

Answer 4

1) Diameter - 120,536 kilometres
2) Revolution Time - 29.41 earth years
3) Rotation Time - 10 hours and 39 minutes
4) No. of Moons - 31 (highest in solar system). Jupiter doesn't have 61 moons as some people say.
5) If you were 50 kg on earth, you would be 53.5 kg there! So the weight there would be 1.07 times that of earth.
6) Distance from sun - 1,424,000,000 kms.
7) It has many colourful rings. (I am giving you the names for more information). The names in ascending order of distance from Saturn.
They are:-
D ring
C ring (crepe ring)
B ring (containing narrow ringlets of dust)
Cassini division which makes apart these from the outer rings.
Two rings called the Alpha rings or A ring (contains broad ringlets of dust)
Then there is an Encke division which again makes the outermost rings apart
Unnamed Ring (Moons revolve around this)

8) Composition of atmosphere - Hydrogen 94%, Helium 5% and traces of ammonia, methane and water vapour 1%
9) Perihelion distance (nearest from sun) - 1347 million km.
Aphelion distance - 1507 million km
10) Axial tilt - 26.7 degrees

Answer 5

It secretly wishes it could be Jupiter