what is the most distinctive feature of saturn
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Explanation:
Saturn's most distinctive feature is the thousands of rings that orbit the planet. The ring particles seem to be composed primarily of water ice, but they may also include rocky particles with icy coatings. Saturn is less dense than water; if you could fit Saturn in a bathtub, it would float.
Answer:
its rings and moons, the lagest one is titan where rains occurs.
Explanation:
1.Saturn is the 2nd largest planet in our solar system after Jupiter and 9 times wider than Earth.
Saturn is a gas planet. It is one of the four planets that are called ‘Jovian Planets’ because they are made up of gas. Saturn’s core is rocky and may be covered in liquid gas, studies say.
Saturn’s rings are made up of millions of ice crystals, some very big and others as small as specks of dust.
2.Saturn is made up of hydrogen and helium which makes it incredibly light. So much so, that it would float in a bathtub; that is if you managed to find a big enough tub for it!
Saturn’s atmosphere is not always calm. There are storm winds travelling at 1,800 km/h present on the planet.
3.Saturn has a very strong magnetic field as compared to Earth. This means that it has a high level of radiation because it is known to trap particles that have high energy in its atmosphere.
Saturn has a total of 62 moons. Titan is Saturn’s largest moon and is also the second largest moon in the solar system after Jupiter’s moon Ganymede.
4.Saturn weighs 95 times more than Earth. That is one heavy planet!
Saturn is at a distance of 1,426,000 km from the Sun. The planet takes 29 ½ years to orbit around the Sun. This means that one year on Saturn is equal to 29 ½ Earth years.
5.Saturn is so big that you can fit 760 Earth-sized planets into it.
6.Saturn has 7 layers of rings.
Galileo first saw the rings in 1610 through a telescope.
Some of the Saturn rings are about 242,000 miles in diameter and some are really small at only a couple of hundred meters thick.
Sometimes, the rings of Saturn gradually disappear because of the tilt of Saturn till they become invisible from Earth. Every 14 years, the rings look like they’ve just gone.