Hi everyone! Today on my blog we are going to talk about a very awesome planet with many rings and moons. Today we are going to talk about Saturn! (Cough Cough this planet is my favorite)

Saturn is named after a character in Roman mythology. Saturn is named after the god Saturnus. Saturnus is the god of agriculture.

Saturn differs from the other planets because Saturn is bigger than all the other planets except for Jupiter. In fact the diameter of Saturn is 120,536 km in diameter not counting the rings. Also Saturn differs from he other planets because of how many moons orbit Saturn. Here is example Saturn has 60 moons orbiting it while Jupiter has 67 moons orbiting it. So basically it is very different form all the other planets.

Saturn is the planet with the lowest density. That means Saturn is lighter than water so if a pond or body of water big enough and Saturn went for a swim Saturn would float.

Now we are going to talk about my favorite part of Saturn it's rings! The rings are made up of small particles and can range in size from micrometers to meters that orbit around Saturn. The particles are made up of mostly water ice with a race component of a rocky material. Now we are going to talk about Saturn's atmosphere. The planet has a yellow haze due to ammonia crystals in it's upper atmosphere. Electrical current that is within it's metallic hydrogen layer is thought to give rise to Saturn's planetary magnetic field.

 

Titan is interesting to scientist because Titan is the only other celestial body to have stable pools of a liquid element on it's surface. Titan has atmosphereic cycle of methane.

 

Now guess what time it is! Fun fact time here are some fcts about Saturn!

 

1) Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun.

2) Saturn's largest moon Titan is bigger than Mercury.

3) The first ring discovered on Saturn was ring a because they named them in alphabetical order.

4) Saturn might have a solid core.

 

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