Saturn Research Paper

The name Saturn came from a roman god of time named Saturn so that’s a theory why Saturn is the slowest to orbit the sun. Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun between Jupiter and Uranus. Its mean distance from Sun 1.43 billion kilometers (890 million miles) that is about ten times the distance from Earth to the sun. It orbits once every 29.4 Earth years. It travels at an average speed of 21,637 miles per hour. Saturn’s poles are tilted 29 degrees relative to the plane of its orbit around the sun. Winds near Saturn’s equator blow east about 1,100 miles per hour, which makes Saturn the windiest of all planets. Temperatures on Saturn are -218F.It is second largest in the solar system. Saturn’s Chemical composition primarily hydrogen and helium

Its core is surrounded by a metallic hydrogen. Its rotation causes it to be shaped like an absolute spheroid. Saturn is a lot like Jupiter. It is made up mostly of gas, including hydrogen, helium and methane. It doesn't have a solid surface. In 2004, a probe from Earth landed on Titan, the solar system's second largest moon. Before this, Titan's surface was hidden by smog. Saturn is the only planet in our Solar System that is less dense than water. Which means that if you could build a ridiculously large bathtub, Saturn would actually float in

Only Jupiter’s moon Ganymede (named after one of Zeus’ lovers) is larger. Titan is even bigger than Mercury. Because Saturn is so far from the Sun, the Sun would appear 10 times smaller viewed from Saturn than it does from Earth. On average, Earth receives 90 times more sunlight than Saturn. Future missions to Saturn include the Titan Saturn System Mission (TSSM), which will explore Saturn and its moons Titan and Enceladus. With a cost of $2.5 billion and estimated launch in 2020, the mission includes circumnavigating Titan with a hot air balloon.

Since Saturn is made mostly of gases with helium in abundance, one cannot stand on it like we do on Earth. Saturn's atmosphere exhibits a banded pattern similar to Jupiter's, but Saturn's bands are much fainter and are much wider near the equator. The nomenclature used to describe these bands is the same as on Jupiter. Saturn's finer cloud patterns were not observed until the flybys of the Voyager spacecraft during the