SATURN

SATURN

• Discovered by Galileo Galeli in 1655
• Saturn is named after the the Roman God of agriculture
• Saturn Has 7 thin flat rings around it
• Saturn Has no solid surface, it's just a ball of gas and a solid inner core
• Saturn has the lowest density of all the planets in the solar system

WHAT'S IN SATURN?

• Saturn is a gas giant made up of mostly hydrogen and helium
• 96.3% of molecular hydrogen and 3.25% helium
• It has 63 moons
• Has a hot solid inner core of iron and rocky material
• Next is a layer of highly compressed, liquid metallic hydrogen followed by a region of vicious hydrogen and helium

SATURNS RINGS!

• 99.9% composed of water ice chunks
• Discovered by Christian Huygens in 1655
• The rings area believed to be peices of comets, asteroids or shatters moons that broke up

FACTS

• A 100 pound object on earth is 116 pounds on Saturn
• It takes 29 earth years for Saturn to orbit around the sun
• Has 30 known Satellites around Saturn
• Saturn's atmosphere comprises of helium and hydrogen
• Was first visited by pioneer 11 in 1997