Saturn, Latin Saturnus, in Roman religion, the god of sowing or seed.Saturn, its astronomical symbol (♄) represents the god's sickle.Saturn is the sixth planet of sun & 2nd largest planet of solar system after Jupiter.Its about 1.4 billion km (886 million miles) far from our sun.Every 29 earth years Saturn orbit around our sun & 10.7 hours to spin its own. Saturn is a gas giant with an average radius about nine times that of Earth.It has 96.3 percent molecular hydrogen, 3.25 percent helium, minor amounts of methane, ammonia, hydrogen deuteride, ethane, ammonia ice aerosols, water ice aerosols, ammonia hydro-sulfide aerosols.Saturn has a amazing ring around it. When look at the ring at a distance away,it looks like a disk.But if we come closer & look it than i wil find out its reality.The ring nothing but a huge amount of icy rocks.
If we count them than Saturn has enormous amount of moons that no other planet have its own in the solar system.We could name a few like,," Pan, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Epimethius , Janus, Mimas, Enchiladas,Tethys, Telesto, Calypso, Dione , Helene, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, Iapetus, Phoebe etc.Among them Titan is the largest moon of Saturn.In 1610, the year after Galileo Galilee first turned a telescope to the sky, he became the very first person to observe Saturn's rings, though he could not see them well enough to discern their true nature. In 1655, Christiana Huygens was the first person to describe them as a disk surrounding Saturn.Saturn has a magnetic field about 578 times more powerful than Earth's.
