Saturn

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Saturn is a planet and the opponent faced in Rings.

## Saturn

### relationships

Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Iapetus, Rhea, Titan (Moon)Jupiter (Friend)

## Planet, Star, Moon, and Asteroid Info

### Average Temperature

Minus 288 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 178 degrees Celsius)

## Appearances

### Appearance

Saturn is a beige gas giant planet with a small bit of blue on his north pole. His most notable features are his extensive ring system and his space rocks, colored to the likeness of the arrows.

### Trivia

* Saturn's "moons" are actually magical colored space orb-rocks that function as bongos, and are not moons.
	+ Saturn can make the bongos have any sound he wants. He just chose the sounds heard in Halo-Gram because they make him happy. Saturn tries his best to always remain cheerful to hide this.
	+ Saturn is not Asian.
	+ Saturn's eyes were planned to be open, but remained closed once his animation began.
* Saturn's bongos are formed from all of his past moons infused with an unknown form of musical energy.
* Saturn's FL Studio preset is FLEX Polex Poly.

### Information

**Saturn** is the sixth planet from the Sun. It is the second largest planet in the Solar System, along with having the most moons. Saturn is most famous for its complex ring system, which are made mostly of ice chunks and crystals. Its biggest moon is Titan.

## Atmosphere

The atmosphere of Saturn is extremely dense and thick. So thick, the atmosphere makes up about 45% of Saturn itself. The atmosphere stretches downward from the purplish-blue, hexagonic northern pole. The atmosphere stretches down about forty five percent of the way to the core of Saturn itself. Below the atmosphere is metallic hydrogen and molten rock.

The atmosphere is mainly consists of hydrogen and helium. The rest include phosphorous, germanium, carbon, ammonia, and other trace elements.

## Orbit and Rotation

Saturn is about 9 times the distance from the sun than the Earth. Therefore it takes much longer to orbit the Sun than the Earth, taking approximately twenty-nine years to orbit the sun.

Saturn is a Jovian planet/one of the gas giants, therefore it rotates on its axis much faster than the inner rocky planets. Saturn takes approximately 10 hours and 30 minutes to make one rotation on its axis. Since Saturn rotates on its axis extremely quickly, this causes the planet to distort its shape. Saturn distorts at the poles and bulges toward the equator.

## Rings

Saturn's ring system is the most complex, most massive and largest of all of the rings of the other gas giants in the Solar System. The rings of Saturn encircle the entire planet at exactly the equator. The rings measure about 288,000 kilometers in diameter, yet measure about 47 1/2 meters in thickness, about half the length of a US football field. Therefore, these rings can only be seen with high-powered and large telescope.

It is theorized that Saturn's rings formed from a former satellite around 100 million years ago when a large asteroid destroyed the moon and caused it to get obliterated and shatter into a ring. The leftover debris from this impact also clumped together to form Tethys and Enceladus.

Because the rings are so thin, every 14 ~ 15 years, when Saturn periodically turns its rings edge on Earth, the rings can actually visibly disappear when viewed with a small telescope. This event is referred to as a "Ring Plane Crossing".

## Formation

Saturn's core formed as a clump of rocky material and particles that remained from the formation of the Sun and Jupiter. Saturn's core was a super-earth about 10 times Earth's mass.

However, because of the abundance of gaseous materials scattered everywhere in the Solar System, Saturn's gravitational pull attracted huge amounts of particles and gas that led to the thickening of its atmosphere, eventually becoming a Jovian gas giant.

## Discovery

Though Saturn was not discovered, it was first explored along with neighboring planet, Jupiter, by **Galileo Galilei**, his telescope, known back then as a **spyglass**, was not powerful enough to spot these rings. It was not until seventeen years later that a Dutch astronomer named **Christian Huygens** would later use a more poweful telescope to discover that Saturn was surrounded by a flat ring.

## Composition

The rings of Saturn is not one ring, as suggested by Huygens, but actually made up of three main rings: The **A, B, and C rings** (also known as the **Crepe ring**). The **A ring** is the ring farthest from the planet of Saturn, though the recently discovered **F ring** is supposedly farther from the planet than the A ring. The A ring consists of the smaller rock particles, such as those as small as marbles. The whitest and brightest ring is the closer **B ring**. This ring contains chunks of ice the size of houses and buildings. The A and B rings are separated by the **Cassini Division**, a 4800-kilometer wide gap between these two rings created by gravitational influences, or **resonances** with Saturn's moons. The ring closest to Saturn is the faintest ring, the **C-ring**, also known as the **Crepe ring**, due to it representing a nearly transparent fabric known as **crepe ring.**