Saturn
The second largest planet in the solar system, Saturn is a "gas giant" composed primarily of hydrogen and helium.
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius of about nine times that of Earth. It only has one-eighth the average density of Earth; however, with its larger volume, Saturn is over 95 times more massive.
Saturn facts
- Moons: noon
- Orbit Distance: 57,909 227 km (0.39 AU)
- Diameter: 1,392 684 km
- Orbit period: 88 days
- Mass: 1.99 x 10^30 kg (333,060 Earths)
- Surface Temperature: -173° to 427°C
- First Record: 14th century BC
- Recorded By: Assyrian astronomers