- Saturn is a gas planet
- Second largest planet in our solar system
- The core is composed of liquid rock
- Most of Saturn's moons are tiny
- The rings are composed of million particles & large chunks of ice and snow
- Only planet in our solar system that is less dense than water
- Flatted at poles , because of its fast rotation on its axis
- Has seven thin flat rings around it
- Saturn has a moon larger than Mercury
- Magnetic field on Saturn that is 578 times as powerful as Earth's
- Can hold more than 760 Earth's
- Takes Saturn 29.46 Earth years to orbit around our Sun
- Saturn's rings are very visible and stand out
- Has a nickname "the jewel of the solar system"
- Summer on Saturn lasts about eight Earth years
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