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Here are some facts about Saturn:
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seven large, flat rings encircle it
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sixth planet from the sun and has 60 known moons
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orbit is elliptical
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distance from the sun
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closest point: 1,349,467,000 kilometers away from sun
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farthest point: 1,503,983,000 kilometers away from sun
- revolution takes 29 1/2 Earth years
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rotation takes 10 hours and 39 minutes of an Earth day
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extreme temperatures
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hotest: -130° C
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coldest: -180° C
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mass: 95.16 times the mass of Earth or 568,510,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms
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surface area: 85.22 times the surface area of Earth or 16,782,000,000 square miles
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named after the Roman god of agriculture, Saturn
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several space probes have visited Saturn in the past years
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Pioneer Saturn was sent to fly-by both Jupiter and Saturn and discovered some of the outer rings
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Voyager 1 and 2 studied Saturn in adition to other planets
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Cassini began orbit of the planet in 2004 for future discoveries
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Cassini and Huygens
Photo Credit: Nasa
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