How far is the Planet Saturn away from the Sun ?
Saturn is the sixth furthest planet in our Solar system from the
Sun, the average distance being 1427 million Km (9.53 Au), Earth
by comparison is nine and a half times this distance away from the
sun.
How big is it ? Interesting Facts
about the Planet Saturn
The
Planet Saturn has a diameter of about 120536km, eleven times that
of the Earth, this makes it the second biggest Planet in our Solar
System, and it's mass is in the order of 5.70e26 kg, second only
to Jupiter of the Planets in our Solar System, 95 times greater
than that of Earth.
What is it like on
the surface of the Planet Saturn ?
Saturn is a
gas planet consisting of approximately 75% hydrogen and 25% helium
and consequently has no surface as such, the gases simply get
denser with increasing depth. The Planets rings are believed to
consist mainly of ice.
Does the Planet
Saturn have any Moons ?
So far there
have been 33 satellites discovered around Saturn, the best known
are Pan, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Epimetheus, Janus, Mimas,
Enceladus, Tethys, Telesto, Calypso, Dione, Helene, Rhea, Titan,
Hyperion, Iapetus and Phoebe. |