#2 ~ Did you know that …

• Saturn is a gas giant. It is made mostly of hydrogen and helium.

• Saturn has a thick atmosphere.

• Saturn has a set of seven main rings with spaces between them.

• One day on Saturn goes by in just 10.7 hours.

• One year on Saturn is the same as 29 Earth years.

• Saturn has 53 moons! You can see a couple of moons in this photos.

• Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun.

• Four robotic spacecraft have visited Saturn, including Pioneer 11, Cassini, and Voyager 1 and 2.

• This is a picture or painting to show the relative size of the planets in the solar system we live in. The illustration also shows what order the planets are in from the sun. The planets don’t really line up like this. And the distance of the planets from each other is far greater than the illustration shows.