SATURN

TAKE A TOUR AROUND THE CROWN JEWEL OF THE SOL SYSTEM

• Welcome to Saturn, the sixth planet of the Sol system.
• It on average 9.54 AU from Sol and at its closest 8 AU from Earth.
• The planetary diameter is 120,536 km making it around 9.5x the size of Earth.
• It is named after the Roman name of the Titan of time and agriculture.
• It's temperature ranges from -139 degrees Celsius on the surface to 11,700 degrees Celsius in the interior.
• Saturn is comprised of 96% hydrogen and 3% helium with some trace elements. It's mostly gas but has a rocky core surround by a layer composed of hydrogen and helium compressed into a liquid metallic state.

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• Saturn has 150 moons, but only a third have formal names. It's major moons are Rhea, Dione, Titan, Mimas, Tethys, Iapetus, and Enceladus.
• Saturn's moons have the unique duty of shaping their planet's rings and Enceladus' case, supplying them with more material from the ejecta of its cryovolcanoes.
• Saturn has been visited by Pioneer 11, the voyagers, and the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft with each visit giving a clearer picture of its surface, rings, and moons.

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• Saturn has a unique hexagon shaped storm on its North Pole.

CITATIONS

• "Saturn." - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Jan. 2016.
• "Saturn." Saturn. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Jan. 2016.