The Saturn is the most beautiful planet of the solar system, its diameter amounts to 120,000 km. Although we know today that also Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto possess rings, those of the Saturns are the largest. Saturn is surrounded by several rings. They consist not of solid rock, but of many small dust particles and
Gesteinsbrocken, which circle around the planet. The rings are probably the remnants of a moon of the Saturn, which came many years ago the planet too close and thereby one tore up. The Saturn has still different moons, which were partially only discovered by space probes. One its companion, that is called hit-pointing titanium, is together
with the Jupitermond Ganymed the largest planet companion of the solar system. The distance to the sun amounts to 1432 billion km. The Saturn consists like the Jupiter of very light gases, above all hydrogen, methane and ammonia.
Actually the Saturn on a water surface would swim because the density of the subject is so small. However the earth, Mars or the Venus consist of metals and heavy minerals and thus would go down. The Saturn has one
Circulation time of 29.6 years and a rotation time of 10 hours and 40 minutes. Also the Saturnatmosphaere moves, shows cloud strips and large eddies. Their activity remains however clear behind the enormous curtains of the Jupieratmosphaere
back. Closer information over the Saturn us the space probe Cassini is to give the 1995 is started and 2002 arrive should. If it is in the orbit, it discovers research probe starting from those the titanium to land should.
August Keller
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