1. Saturn the fascinating planet

2. Who has mysterious rings in our Solar System? Saturn, the sixth planet in our Solar System has rings around itself, which have puzzled astronomers for years. Saturn is a gas giant and has no solid surface. It is the 2 nd largest planet in the Solar System. Earth takes 24 hours to complete a day, while Saturn takes around 10 hours to complete a day. Saturn makes a complete orbit around the sun in 29 Earth years.

3. Are you wondering how big Saturn is when compared to our Earth?

5. Astronomers claim that 764 planets the size of Earth can be fit inside Saturn!

6. Saturn, the sixth planet in our Solar System has rings around itself, which have puzzled astronomers for years. Galileo Galilei discovered these rings in 1610. These rings extend to around 2,82,000 kilometres from the planet.

7. Saturn has 7 main rings and thousands of smaller rings. Its rings are very wide and at the same time very thin. For instance if Saturn is the size of a Basketball, its rings are of the size of human hair. These rings are made of pieces of rocks and ice, ranging from the size of a grain of sand to as big as mountains.

8. Saturn has 53 known moons. Titan is the biggest moon of Saturn. The day Saturday is named after Saturn. Titan

9. Saturn is here! theteacher.in