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Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun and the second largest planet in the solar system. Saturn was the Roman name for Cronus, the lord of the Titans in Greek mythology. Saturn is the root of the English word "Saturday."

Saturn is the farthest planet from Earth visible to the naked human eye, but it is through a telescope that the planet's most outstanding features can be seen: Saturn's rings. Although the other gas giants in the solar system — Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune — also have rings, those of Saturn are without a doubt the most extraordinary.

Top 20 Saturn facts 

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Saturn is the lightest planet in our solar system.

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This planet is known as being a “gas giant”. The other planets that are classed as gas giants are Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus.

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Saturn is the second largest planet in our solar system.

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The rings of Saturn are made of chunks of rock and ice. Did you enjoy our Saturn amazing facts?

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If you was driving at 75 miles (121 km) per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn’s rings.

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Saturn’s winds can blow up to 1,100 miles per hour, which makes it the windiest planet in our solar system.

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As Saturn has a very low density, if you were able to put it into water, it would float!

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Saturn is so big that Earth could fit into it whooping 755 times!

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Saturn is twice as far away from the Sun as Jupiter is.

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A year on Saturn would take almost thirty Earth years.

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A day on Saturn Planet is 10 hours 39 minutes. This is the truth, not just jokes as we've thought before.

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Enceladus, one of Saturn’s smaller moons, reflects some 90% of the sunlight, making it more reflective than snow!

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Planet Saturn is approximately 856 million miles away from the Sun.

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Saturn is named after the Roman god of agriculture.

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Saturn has 64 known moons orbiting it.

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At times, Planet Saturn can be the 3rd brightest planet in night sky.

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Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only moon in the Solar System to possess an atmosphere.

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Saturn Planet is about 75% hydrogen and 25% helium with minor traces of water, methane and ammonia.

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Galileo was the first to observe this planet with a telescope in 1610.

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Planet Saturn is the root of the English word “Saturday”.

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Science and awesome facts you didn't know before

The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 F (511,000,000 C) at the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor in Princeton, NJ, USA. Keep following to get much more other science facts

• Armadillos, opossums, and sloth's spend about 80% of their lives sleeping.
• The starfish species, Porcellanaster ivanovi, has been found to live in water as deep as 24,881 feet (7,584 meters).
• The tentacles of the giant Arctic jellyfish can reach 120 feet (36.6 meters) in length.
• The greatest tide change on earth occurs in the Bay of Fundy. The difference between low tide and high tide can be as great as 54 ft. 6 in. (16.6 meters).
• The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 F (511,000,000 C) at the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor in Princeton, NJ, USA.
• The most powerful laser in the world, the Nova laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA, USA, generates a pulse of energy equal to 100,000,000,000,000 watts of power for .000000001 second to a target the size of a grain of sand.
• The fastest computer in the world is the CRAY Y-MP C90 supercomputer. It has two gigabytes of central memory and 16 parallel central processor units.
• The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb. 1.1 oz. (2.3 kg.).
• The deepest part of the ocean is 35,813 feet (10,916 meters) deep and occurs in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. At that depth the pressure is 18,000 pounds (9172 kilograms) per square inch.

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• The largest cave in the world (the Sarawak Chamber in Malaysia) is 2,300 feet (701 meters) long, 980 feet (299 meters) wide, and more than 230 feet (70 meters) high.
• The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an estimated surface temperature of 864 F (462 C).
• The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.
• The first electronic digital computer (called ENIAC - the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) was developed in 1946 and contained over 18,000 vacuum tubes.
• The leg muscles of a locust are about 1000 times more powerful than an equal weight of human muscle.
• The cosmos contains approximately 50,000,000,000 galaxies.
• There are between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars in a normal galaxy.
• Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
• Scientists have discovered that copper pollution of the atmosphere occurred about 2500 years ago. This was discovered by analyzing ice cores from Greenland. The pollution was attributed to the Romans who used copper for military purposes and to produce coins.

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