Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun and the second largest planet in the solar system. Like other planets, it has a significant magnetic field. Saturn is easily visible to the eye at night. The rings and the larger satellites are visible with a telescope.

    Saturn has flatted rings, which make it one of the most beautiful planets in the solar system. The rings change whenever the weather changes. They tilt facing the earth. Sometimes they disappear.

     Saturn is a very windy planet.  Around the equator, the wind blows around 1,100 miles an hour.  It is not quite as windy around the higher latitudes.    

Fast Facts

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

• Saturn receives only one-hundredth as much heat from the Sun as the Earth does.
   

• Saturn is over 75,000 miles (1230,000) km across. That is almost ten times the diameter of the Earth.
   

• Saturn is made of 97% hydrogen and 3% helium. 
   

• Like Jupiter, Saturn is mostly liquid hydrogen.
   

• Saturn has eighteen moons. The largest is Titan.