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| Diameter | 120,540km (250,000km with rings) |
The second largest planet in the Solar System, Saturn is famous because of the amazing rings that orbit the planet. The planet is mainly made up of gas and has been visited by the Voyager probes in the early 1980s and more recently by the Cassini probe. Orbiting Saturn are at least 47 known moons including a moon called Titan which has an atmosphere that may have been like Earth's during its formation. |
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| Average distance from the Sun | 1,427,000,000 kilometres | ||
| Time taken to orbit the Sun | 29.5 Earth years | ||
| Time taken to turn on axis | 10 hours, 39 minutes | ||
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| Surface gravity (Earth equals 1) | |||
| Atmosphere | Hydrogen, Helium | ||
| Average temperature | -180°c | ||
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