SATURN

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USA[08/16/19]

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Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and is the second-largest in the Solar System. It is a Gas Giant, like Jupiter, and is the least dense planet in the Solar System. Every planet in the Solar System takes a certain amount of time to complete a single orbit around the Sun. Here on Earth, this period lasts 365.25 days - a period that we refer to as a year. When it comes to the other planets, we use this measurement to characterize their orbital periods. And what we have found is that on many of these planets, depending on their distance from the Sun, a year can last a very long time! Consider Saturn, which orbits the Sun at a distance of about 9.5 AU - i.e. nine and a half times the distance between the Earth and the Sun. Because of this, the speed with which it orbits the Sun is also considerably slower. As a result, a single year on Saturn lasts an average of about 29.5 years. And during that time, some interesting changes happen for the planet's weather systems.

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Type- Gas Giant

Made of- Hydrogen, helium, methane

Temperature- (-178 C) Northern and southern hemispheres are heated differently.

Diameter- 116,460 km

Mass- 5.683 x 10^26 kg

Distance from Sun- 1.434 billion km

Distance from Earth- 1.2 billion km (closest)

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