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    Surprising Saturn

    Nov 01, 2019 5 minutes

    As you zoom away from Earth in your spaceship, you wave to the Moon, zip past Mars, and weave through the rocky asteroid belt. After a long while, there’s massive Jupiter. And finally, 800 million miles from home, you arrive at everyone’s favorite ringed giant: Saturn. Time to explore its secrets!

    Welcome to Saturn

    Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun, and the second largest planet in our solar system. It’s 95 times more massive than Earth, and 9 times as wide.

    A year on Saturn (the time it takes to go around the sun once) is 29.5 Earth years long. But the days are short. Saturn is spinning very quickly, so it has a new day every 10.5 hours.

    Saturn is very far away. It orbits about 870 million miles (1,400 million km)

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