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Saturn is the second largest Planet and if you took its rings away, it would look just like Jupiter. Saturn is also made up of hydrogen and helium gases. It spins quickly, too, with its day lasting only 10 hours and 40 minutes.
Saturn’s clouds are less colourful than Jupiter’s because it is further away from the Sun
¾ and colder. Temperatures in Saturn’s clouds of ammonia ice-crystals hover at -135° C. On Saturn winds can blow even stronger than on Jupiter. In some places, Saturn’s winds roar at 1300 km per hour, that’s 11 times faster than a hurricane on Earth. Saturn has a diameter of 120 540 km and is 1 492 million km from the Sun.The most impressive sight on Saturn would be the thousands of rings that circle it. These rings are a blizzard of snowballs. From a long distance, that rings look solid, but from close-up, they would look like millions of ice chunks the size of hailstones and snowballs. If you packed all the ring particles together, you could make a snowball about 100km across.
Saturn has 18 moons. The biggest moon is Titan, which is the 2nd largest moon in the Solar System. Titan is the only moon that has a thick atmosphere. You would not be able to see through Titan’s dense, orange clouds.
Wow! That’s Incredible!