Saturn means: Saturn was the Roman god of agriculture. He was called Cronus by the Greeks.

He is the son of Uranus and the father of Jupiter. Saturn overthrew his father to b ecome king of the gods, but was then overthrown himself by his son Jupiter. aturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest: orbit: 1,429,400,000 km (9.54 AU) from Sun diameter: 120,536 km (equatorial) mass: 5.68e26 kg How much would you weigh on Saturn? Because Saturn is bigger than the Earth, you would weigh more on Saturn than you do here. If you weigh 70 (32 kg) pounds on Earth, you would weigh 74.5 pounds ( 34 kg) on Saturn. Probably not as much as you thought, right? Keep reading to fi nd out why. The Planet In many ways, Saturn is similar to Jupiter, but it is much smaller. It is the se cond largest planet in our Solar System and it is a gas giant like Jupiter. Unde r the clouds of methane, hydrogen and helium, the sky gradually turns into liqui d until it becomes a giant ocean of liquid chemicals. Saturn is the least dense planet in our Solar System. It is made up of mostly hy drogen and helium, which are the two lightest elements in the universe and thus make Saturn the lightest planet that we know of. This is why you wouldn't weigh as much on Saturn as you think you would because of its size. And because Saturn is so light, it does not have as much gravity. Interestingly, it is believed Sa turn would actually be able to float in water because the hydrogen and helium th at make up the planet are so lightweight. Because Saturn is such a lightweight planet and it spins so fast, Saturn is not perfectly round like most of the other planets. Like Jupiter, Saturn is wider in the middle and more narrow near its top and bottom. The Rings Saturn is most well-known for its rings. However, it is not the only planet with rings. Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune also have rings. Saturn is a favorite object for many observers. Its beautiful rings are 169,800 miles wide (approx 273,266 km). But the rings are amazingly thin, estimated to be less than a kilometer thi ck. That's only a little more than half a mile (0.62 miles to be exact)! The rin gs are split into categories, Ring A, Ring B, Ring C, Ring D, Ring E, Ring F and Ring G, totaling 7 in all. The rings are not solid but rather are made up of pa rticles of ice, dust and rocks. The rings are held in place around Saturn by the moons that also orbit this large planet. The gravity of these moons also cause the gaps that are seen in between the rings. Moons: Saturn has 53 official moons and 9 provisional (unofficial) moons. The most well -known of Saturn's moons is probably Titan. It is the second largest moon in the Solar System next to Jupiter's Ganymede. Titan is larger than the planet Mercur y. Some of the other moons are Atlas, Calypso, Dione, Enceladus, Hyperion, Iapet us, Janus, Mimas, Phoebe, and Tethys. Position of Saturn Having spent the period from mid-2005 to mid-2006 in the constellation of Cancer , the Crab, Saturn entered Leo, the Lion, in August 2006. Its next three looping formations took place in this constellation, spending three years there before crossing into Virgo, the Virgin, in September 2009 (to find Leo and Virgo from T he Big Dipper, see the animation below). Saturn crossed the celestial equator (d eclination = 0), heading Southwards, in late September 2010. It will be positione

d in Virgo for a little over three years before it enters Libra, the Scales (or the Balance) in early December 2012. Six months later, in mid-May 2013, the ring ed planet returns to Virgo, moving retrograde and reaching its western stationar y point in July, before re-entering Libra in late August 2013. Saturn reaches opposition to the Sun (when it is closest to the Earth and bright est in the sky for the year) every 378 days, i.e. about 13 days later in each su ccessive year. Details of the seven Saturnian oppositions covered by the above s tar map are given in the table below. Around opposition, Saturn is due South at local midnight in the Northern hemisphere (due North at local midnight in the So uthern hemisphere). Note how the planet's appearance changes markedly at each op position, the ring system displaying varying tilt angles to the Earth as it orbi ts the Sun (for more details, see the diagram of Saturn's orbit). Like the other Solar System planets, Saturn's apparent size (its angular diameter as seen from the Earth) varies slightly at each opposition because its orbit is slightly ell iptical. The dates on which Saturn reaches superior conjunction (i.e. when it passes behi nd the Sun as seen from the Earth) are also shown in the table. The planet is no t normally visible from the Earth for about two weeks on either side of these da tes. Saturn is a big planet. The largest planet in the Solar System is Jupiter, but S aturn comes in second. And it s much larger than Earth. Let s start with mass. The mass of Saturn is 5.6846 1026 kg. Just for comparison, thi s is about 95 times the mass of the Earth. Of course, the mass of Saturn is only 1/3rd the mass of Jupiter. Next, diameter. The diameter of Saturn is 120,536 km across its equator (and 108 ,728 from pole to pole). And for comparison, this is about 9.4 times the diamete r of the Earth. colour The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided images of Saturn in many color s, from black-and-white, to orange, to blue, green, and red. But in this picture , image processing specialists have worked to provide a crisp, extremely accurat e view of Saturn, which highlights the planet's pastel colors. Bands of subtle c olor (yellows, browns, grays) distinguish differences in the clouds over Saturn, the second largest planet in the solar system. Saturn's high-altitude clouds are made of colorless ammonia ice. Above these clo uds is a layer of haze or smog, produced when ultraviolet light from the sun shi nes on methane gas. The smog contributes to the planet's subtle color variations . One of Saturn's moons, Enceladus, is seen casting a shadow on the giant planet as it passes just above the ring system. The flattened disk swirling around Saturn is the planet's most recognizable feat ure, and this image displays it in sharp detail. This is the planet's ring syste m, consisting mostly of chunks of water ice. Although it appears as if the disk is composed of only a few rings, it actually consists of tens of thousands of th in ringlets. This picture also shows the two classic divisions in the ring syste m. The narrow Encke Gap is nearest to the disk's outer edge; the Cassini divisio n, is the wide gap near the center. life exit on saturn Titan: Nasa scientists discover evidence 'that alien life exists on Saturn's moo n' Evidence that life exists on Titan, one of Saturn s biggest moons, appears to have been uncovered by Nasa scientists. Researchers at the space agency believe they have discovered vital clues that ap

peared to indicate that primitive aliens could be living on the moon. Data from Nasa's Cassini probe has analysed the complex chemistry on the surface of Titan, which experts say is the only moon around the planet to have a dense atmosphere. They suggest that life forms may have been breathing in the planet s atmosphere an d also feeding on its surface s fuel. Astronomers claim the moon is generally too cold to support even liquid water on its surface.There can be no life extienceNo. Because: - Saturn is a gas planet and it does not have soil for landscaping - There is no water or oxygen that is needed by humans in respiration