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Wednesday 16 May 2018

Saturn

           Facts about Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second biggest
planet in our solar system. Saturn was also named after the father
of the god Jupiter in Roman mythology and the last of the planets
known to ancient.


Saturn has four main groups of ring and three fainter narrower ring
groups. Three groups are separated by gaps called divisions. Close
up views of Saturn's rings by the voyager spacecrafts , which flew by
them in 1980 and 1981 , showed that these seven ring groups are
made up of thousands of small rings.


Saturn has 62 moons and 150 rings. Saturn has been known as a
fabulous ring system that was first observed in 1610 by the astronomer
Galileo Galilei.


Saturn is one of the outer planets also saturn and its rings and almost
wider than earth. 53 of saturn’s rings have been named because they
are very special. Saturn's rings are made out of water , ice , rocks , dust
and other chemicals.




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