| Diameter |
120,540km
(250,000km with rings) |
| Average
distance from Sun |
1,427,000,000
kilometres |
| Time
taken to orbit Sun |
29.5
Earth years |
| Time
taken to turn on axis |
10
hours, 39 minutes |
| Surface
gravity (Earth = 1) |
1.16 |
| Atmosphere |
Hydrogen,
Helium |
| Average
surface temperature |
-180°c |
|
The second largest planet in the
Solar System, Saturn is famous because of the amazing rings that orbit the
planet. The planet is mainly made up of gas and has been visited by the
Voyager probes in the early 1980s and more recently by the Cassini probe.
Orbiting Saturn are at least 60 known moons including a moon called Titan
which has an atmosphere that may have been like Earth's during its
formation. |
