At 71 light-minutes from Earth.
Saturn owns thousand of rings. They are compose of dust and ice. There dimensions vary to a sand grain until an automobile.
The origine of those rings is a mystery, but several theorys have been elaborate. One dict that the destruction of one satellite attract by tide force of the planet, the destruction of one satellite by a comet or a meteor, or also, material who never can form satellite.
Saturn owns more then 20 satellites.
That planet owns several gas, like helium and hydrogen.
Saturn is consider to be the most impresive objet to observ in the sky because of is beauty of is rings who reveal a small telescope. Those rings are constitute of rubbles covert of ice and rock in orbit around the planet. Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune also have packs rings, but those of Saturn are spectacular far away.
In the sky, Saturn shine with a yellow stable brightness; we can observ it any time in the night. When the air is not turbulent, a small telescope allow you to observ, in the rings, it have a blank call Cassini division. It is the turbulence of the atmosphere who determine sharpness of details observable rather then the telescope power. When we higher up that power, that one, only growing wath you see already fuzzy.
Titan, one of Saturn's moons, is one of the biggest in the solar system. From Earth, in a telescope or binoculars, we perceive like a luminous point near the planet.
Yoyager spacecraft explored Saturn and is moons; it had send us close-up pictures of those objects. Because Saturn is more distant from the sun, chemical reactions who produce color in clouds run slowly because the low temperature. It is why the bands on surface are less numerous then Jupiter surface.
Voyager's spacecrafts discovered that those rings are compose with multitude of thin rings.
Those spacecrafts also took pictures of several moons and detected some new one. Titan have an atmosphere more thick then Earth and the pression on the ground is higher. Is red color come from a kind of dry smog.
Some others satellites of Saturn owns fissures, crags, craters and a lot more lands injury. Mimas have a crater so large, that moon probably failed to broke at the moment of the crater creation.
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| Principal constituant of the atmosphere | He |