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====** Written Information **: Saturn is the second largest planet in the universe. It got its name from a Roman agricultural deity. It is the farthest planet away from Earth that you can see with just your eye and not a telescope. Saturn is also one of the gas giants. It holds mostly gas. Saturn, like all the gas giants, has a rocky surface. Saturn makes a full rotaation at about 10.5 Earth days. Because of this speed of rotation Saturn's poles have become flattened. The measurement around the equator of Saturn is about 10 times larger than the measurement around pole to pole. saturn's days are very short, but it has very long years. It takes about 29.5 Earth years to make one revolution.====

====One of Saturn best sights are its rings. These rings can be bright and they can be lopsided also. These rings are around 1.6 kilometers thick. Scientists researching these rings thought that they were moons.This shows how large Satun's rings are.These rings are mostly made of ice, dust, and rocky debris. Saturn's rings have perplexed observers. Some of these observers are Galileo Galilei and Cassini. Galileo's telescope let Galileo see a planet flanked on either side by two smaller circles. Since back then no one knew these were rings Galileo thought they were satellites revolving around Saturn. A couple years later Galileo researched Saturn again and it lacked its two rings. This shows astronomers today that the sights of the rings change over time as it moves relative to Earth. The rings tilt and when they're seen on edge they nearly disappear.====

====Saturn has at least 57 moons. About three dozen moons have names. Most of the moons consist of about 30 to 40 percent rock and about 60 to 70 percent of ice. One moon, Enceladus, is a small moon of Saturn. Cassini, the scientist listed in the last paragraph, took photographs of giant plumes of ice and water vapor erupting from Enceladus. These plumes fly hundreds of kilometers into space before landing back on the moon. The plumes emerge from four "tiger stripes" which are "long fissures that cut across the moon's south polar region. Another moon,Titan, has a layered atmosphere just like Earth's. Researchers have been studying this. Titan is Saturn's largest moon. This moon also has a dense atmosphere and is the only one known to have a dense atmosphere. Saturn's moons are very interesting to research.====

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second largest planet in solar system. it is the farthest planet from the earth that you can se with the naked eye. saturn is a gas giant. its rings are made of ice, dust, and rocky debris. It is distinguished by its rings. Has a rocky core. Saturn and Jupiter have appeared to be made from the same material. Titan was saturns first identified moon, it also has a dense atmosphere and it remains the only moon in the solar system with this feature.

Saturns rings can also be bright. some rings can also be lopsided. Saturns name comes from a Roman agricultural deity. Saturn 's characteristic rings, like its numerous moons, have long perplexed observers, including Italian astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). His primitive telescope revealed a planet flanked on either side by two smaller spheres that he assumed were satellites revolving around the planet. In 1612, however, he observed Saturn again--this time it lacked its two companions. Cassini had recorded the rings in one of his drawings, but he apparently had only a faint impression of them; other astronomers also noted the dark belts, and Herschel concluded they were an atmospheric phenomena. Today astronomers know that the appearance of Saturn 's rings changes as it moves relative to Earth. The rings tilt, and they looked to Galileo like two spheres on each side of Saturn ; when seen edge-on, they nearly disappear

scientists used to think that the rings were moons.

saturn completes one rotation at about 10.5 Earth hours.As a result of this rate of spin, theplanet has become flattened at it poles. The measurement around its equator is 10 percent greaterthan the measurement around the planet from pole to pole. In contrast to the length of its day,Saturn has a very long year. Lying an average distance of 887 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers)from the Sun, Saturn takes 29.5 Earth years tocomplete one revolution.

saturn holds mostly gas.

Saturn has at least 57 moons, of which about three dozen have received officially sanctioned names from theInternational Astronomical Union. All the known moons are composed of about30 to 40 percent rock and 60 to 70 percent ice. All but two have nearly circular orbits and travelaround Saturn in the same plane.

The rings are estimated to be about 1.6 killometers thick. Saturn's most outstanding characteristic is its set of rings

That body is Enceladus, a small moon of Saturn. Six years ago, Cassini, a U.S.-European space craft, photographed giant plumes of ice and water vapor erupting from Enceladus. The plumes shoot hundreds of kilometers into space before settling back onto the moon, whitewashing its surface. The plumes emerge from four "tiger stripes"--long fissures that cut across the moon's south polar region.

Saturn's moon Titan may be more similar to an Earth-like world than previously thought, possessing a layered atmosphere just like our __planet__ , researchers said.

Titan is Saturn's largest moon, and is the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere. A better understanding of how its hazy, soupy atmosphere works could shed light on similar ones __scientists__ might find on alien planets and moons. However, conflicting details about how [|Titan's atmosphere] is structured have emerged over the years.