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Saturn



Describe how the planet got its name: The roman god of agriculture. Who discovered your planet ? When? How? Where? : N/ADistance: Oder from the sun: The 6th planet from the sun. Distance from the sun: 1429 million kilometers (888 kilometers miles.) Distance from Earth: 6,918,273,640,192,837,465 kilometers Planet Measureents: Mass: second largest planet. 5.68e 26kg. Volume: 5.685*10^ 26 km.^3 Orbit & Rotation: Number of days to orbit around the sun: 10,760 Perihelion(How close does it get to the sun?):1.35 billion km. Equatorial Circumference: 378675km. or 235298 miles Mean Density: 0.687g. Gravity: yes Aphelion(How far does it get from the sun?) 938,000,000 miles. Length of one day(number of hours in one day?): 24 hrs. Planet Appearance: Write 3-4 sentences to describe what your planet looks like: 4 large sets of rings and some smaller ones. From Earth it appears as a yellowish ball with a bright bar or ellipse indicating rings. People think that Saturn is Yellowish brown and the rings are brownish green. Rings: Provide information about the rings,number, composition, color, etc. There are 4 rings you can see and see and 3 tiny rings you can't see. The ring system of Saturn is divided into 5 major componments: The G,F,A,B,and C rings, listed from inside and outside. The F and C rings are thin and difficult to see. While the A,B, and C rings are broad and easily visible. The large gap between the A ring and the B ring is called the Cassini divison.

Satellites(moons): List all satellites. Provide a brief description and data when a moon has significant information. Attach another piece of paper if necessary. : Saturn has 31 moons. The largest moon is Titan. Epirnetheus, Panodora, Prometheous.

Composition- describe the core and surface composition:Core Composition: composed liquid rock. Surface Composition: Saturn is a gas giant. It's surface is like Jupiters. A layer of liqiud hydrogen.

Atmosphere: List the major and minor gases Major Gases: Hydrogen Helium Small amount of Methane, Ethane, and Ahmonia. Minor Gases : same as major gases.

Surface Condition: Wind Speed: 10km. Temperature Ranges: core:11700 surface: -55^0F to -290^0 Surface Pressure: 1000 bars

Weather: describe what kind of weather occurs on your planet: There is a lot of wind. NO RAIN!!!

Water: what forms of water are found on your planet or on any of the moons? Saturn's Atmosphere is mainly made up of hydrogen and helium with trace amounts of water. Under the clouds scientist think there are either thick lakes of liquids hydrogen or ammonium hydrosulfide and water and it has a rocky core which is about 20,000 kilometers wide.

Exploration: List all human explorations (from satellite probes) to your planet. Include satellite name and date: No one has been to Saturn because it is very far away from Earth and you can't survive on Saturn's because it is poisonous in some spots and it's hard to have enough food to go to Saturn and back.

Habitability: describe what would happen to a human if they traveled to your planet: You would sink into hotter and deeper surface and die.

Future human travel: what are some problems and solutions to sending humans to your planet: Saturn doesn't have a solid surface. So it would be hard to stand. The gravity is extremely powerful. The gases it is made out of are posionous. NASA can barley afford a trip to the international space station so its hard to make trips past the moon.

F erraformings: what modifications would be needed for humans to live on this planet: It would need to be a solid planet and there would need to keep oxygen in and there is no water on the planet. So Saturn would need to be solid, have water and oxygen.

Cool facts: How much would you wiegh on your planet? I would weigh 106.4 lbs. on Saturn

. List 3 neat or interesting facts about your planet: 1. Saturn is composed mainly of hydrogen gas (93%) 2. Saturn is an average of 889 million miles from the sun. 3. Saturn has 95 times the mass of Earth.

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