Does sunlight reach saturn?

Answer 1

Yes and it takes about 80 minutes to get there as Saturn is about 10 AU from the Sun. (We are 1 AU from the Sun and light takes about 8 minutes to reach us.)

When we see Saturn we are seeing sunlight reflected off its surace and off its rings. They have no light of their own, as only stars emit light not planets. It takes somewhere between approx 72 and 88 minutes for light to "bounce back" to our eyes, depending on whether we are on the same side of the Sun as Saturn is (Saturn is then 9 AU approx away from earth) or we are on the far side of the Sun from Saturn (Saturn is then 11 AU approx away from earth).

The further away from the Sun you go, the colder the planets get, as less light and heat reach them. And the smaller the disc of the Sun will look to an observer, meaning that an observer on the surface of Saturn (let us say on its innermost moon, to be practical) would see the Sun totally eclipsed by smaller moons than ours (and Saturn has 59 other moons to choose from).

Answer 2

Yes it does. However, not as much sunlight reaches it. You can think about it as kind of like putting a tennis ball in front of a flashlight. If the ball is closer to the flashlight, the shadow cast on the wall is huge, which means most of the light coming from the flashlight is hitting the ball directly. But if you move the ball away, the shadow on the wall gets smaller and smaller. This is because much less light is hitting it. This is like the Earth and Saturn. Since the Earth is close to the sun, many of the rays hit Earth and keep us warm. However much less light hits Saturn because it is so far away (even though it is bigger). Technically light can travel forever, so the sunlight hits all of the planets in our solar system, and even planets we don't see!

Answer 3

To Saturn, the Sun will appear very little, a function of the shear distance between them. Sunlight, however, will continue to travel in time and space. And, to a far-away star, it'll appear even smaller than in Saturn, a speck. Farther still, it'll become inconspicuous from neighboring stars, their light blended together. Of course, the shear distance between galaxies may require millions of years for sunlight to reach the nearest one, but this is a matter of time.

Given enough time, sunlight will reach the farthest corners of the universe.

Answer 4

Of course. Sunlight reaches to an infinite distance, it is just that the inverse square law causes it tobe invisible at great distances. Saturn, though, is well within the area lit by the sun, which would be the brightest star in Saturn's sky.

Answer 5

Yes, but since it is almost 10 times further away from the sun than we are, the sun appears almost 10 times smaller. In degrees, the sun from here is about 1/2 degree diameter, so it appears only about 1/20 of a degree, or 3 arc minutes in diameter from Saturn. This would be barely discernable as a tiny ball, and since energy received from the sun is accordig to the inverse square law, Saturn only receives about 1/100 the light and heat from the sun that we do, per square foot.


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Answer 6

light travels at a finite speed and will eventually get to saturn, more than 8 minutes (the time sunlight takes to get to earth) in the past. in other words your seeing saturn as it was 8+ minutes previous

Answer 7

Sure does. Light particles travel at a rate of 3x10^8 m/s, and, unless arrested, continue to travel infinitely in the form of a wave. So, yes, Saturn is indeed lit by the sun much like the Earth is.

Answer 8

obviously yes as the speed of light is 3 lacks k/s it reaches in a small quantity to the planet Saturn but it requires much time .

Answer 9

Of course...otherwise we wouldn't be able to _see_ Saturn since, like all planets, it shines by reflected sunlight.

Answer 10

Sunlight reaches all the planets in the solar system.