OtterKnow Kids EncyclopediaSaturn is one of the most beautiful planets in our solar system! It is the sixth planet from the Sun and is famous for its bright, colorful rings. Saturn is the second largest planet, and it is a giant ball of gas, so you could not stand on it.
Saturn’s rings are made of billions of pieces of ice and rock. Some pieces are as small as grains of sand, and others are as big as houses! The rings look like one solid ring from far away, but they are really many rings side by side. Saturn also has more than 140 moons orbiting around it.
- Saturn is so light that if you could find a bathtub big enough, it would float in water!
- One of Saturn’s moons, called Titan, has lakes and rivers on it, but they are filled with a cold liquid called methane instead of water.
- A day on Saturn is only about 10.7 hours long!
