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Saturn's Temperature: One Cool Planet Saturn's Temperature: One Cool Planet. With an average temperature of minus 288 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 178 degrees Celsius), Saturn is a pretty cool planet. Although there are some small differences as one travels from the equator to the poles, much of Saturn's temperature variation is horizontal.
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Saturn Like Jupiter, Saturn is made mostly of hydrogen and helium. Its volume is 755 times greater than that of Earth. Winds in the upper atmosphere reach 500 meters (1,600 feet) per second in the equatorial region.
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- Earth's atmosphere is also mostly nitrogen. Saturn also has many icy moons like Mimas which has a large crater that is 1/4 the diameter of the moon, and Enceladus which has very dark material covering one side and very bright material on the other side.
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KidZone Science Saturn Facts Seasons on Saturn: Earth's equator is tilted 23 degrees. It is this tilt that gives the planet its 4 seasons. Each year, as we orbit around the sun the tilt of the planet causes different parts of the planet to spend more time in sunlight.
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- Confidence votes 3.0K. The sidereal rotational period of Saturn (1 Saturn day) is 10 hours 45 minutes and 45 seconds which is about 0.4484375 Earth days. The orbital period of Saturn is 29.4571 Earth years or 10,759.22 Earth days (24,491.07 Saturn days).
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- The last plane crossing was in May of 1995. Saturn's features are hazy because its atmosphere is thicker. Jupiters mass is greater than Saturns. Therefore, its gravity is higher and a higher surface gravity compresses the atmosphere to 75 km in thickness. On Saturn, the low mass means less surface gravity and the atmosphere is thicker at 300 km from top to bottom. The result is that Saturn's atmosphere has more haze and its features (turbulence, cyclones, etc.) are blurred and hard to see. This also causes its colors are muted into a general yellowish hue. The wind blows at high speeds on Saturn, due to energy emitted from its core like Jupiter (see below).
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Saturn's Atmosphere: All the Way Down This implies that much of the planet's helium is sinking through the hydrogen. The distance to Saturn from the sun keeps these gases, and the temperature of the planet, cold. Traces of water are present in the atmosphere, but predominantly as ice. The surface of Saturn is defined by the region where the pressure of the planet reaches one bar, equivalent to the pressure at sea level on Earth. Climate and weather. Like Jupiter, Saturn boasts layers of clouds.
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- Fun Facts about Saturn. Saturn is the second largest planet in the Solar System. Saturn is the most dense planet, being made up mostly of hydrogen and helium. Due to its lightness and speed, Saturn is not round - it is wider in the middle. Saturn's rings are made up mostly of ice.
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Saturn: 10 interesting facts about the jewel of the solar system - While a day on Earth is of 24 hours. A day on Saturn is 10 hours 39 minutes. - Saturn rotates at a speed of 6,200 miles per hour which makes it bulge at its equator and also its poles are flat. One can also say that it is the flattest planet in the solar system. - Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and is the only known moon to have a substantial atmosphere, which is 370 miles deep, 10 times thicker than Earth’s atmosphere.
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Saturn's Temperature Ranges Saturn's Temperature Ranges By Chris Deziel; Updated January 30, 2018 Because of its proximity to the sun, Earth's surface temperature varies widely from the poles to the equator, but the situation is different on Saturn where the sun appears in the sky as a bright star. On the surface, Saturn's average temperature varies from about -185 degrees Celsius (-300 degrees Fahrenheit) to -122 C (-188 F). The temperature variation is due to the planet's internal processes, not the sun.
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The Environment of Saturn The Environment of Saturn. Titan's atmosphere is a lot like the Earth's, except that it is very cold, from -330 degrees to -290 degrees! Like the Earth, there is a lot of Nitrogen and other complex molecules.
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Saturn Facts Saturn Facts. Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the most distant that can be seen with the naked eye. It is best known for its fabulous ring system that was discovered in 1610 by the astronomer Galileo Galilei.
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Could The Shadow Of Saturnâs Rings Affect Its Weather? Cassini entered Saturn’s ionosphere on April 27 and started orbiting the planet. During that time, scientists managed to collect data using the probe’s Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) instruments.
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What is Saturn's climate? Saturn's climate is about 180 degrees Celsius below zero. It's freezing! It has giant upper atmosphere storms. It's wind is extremely strong, especially near the equator. Saturn's climate is about 180 degrees Celsius below zero.
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Saturn 1 Saturn is a great ball of hydrogen and helium. 2  Saturn’s axis is tilted and as the planet orbits the Sun we get different views of the rings. 3  Twice in every orbit only the edge of the outermost ring can be seen; even that can only be seen by using the strongest telescopes.
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Is Saturn hot or cold? That depends. The 'surface' of Saturn (really the point where the atmospheric pressure is one Earth atmosphere) is quite cold (well below freezing as others have stated) but the interior of the planet is about 12 000 K (twice as hot as the 'surface' of the sun). Source(s): http://www.nineplanets.org/saturn.html.
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Saturn Larger than thirty planet Earths. Faster than the speed of sound (really). Look, up on Saturn, it's... If you could tune in to the Interplanetary Weather Channel, here's what you would have heard one day last fall: And now for tomorrow's forecast. Saturn: swirling clouds, with winds gusting to 1,000 miles per hour.. And if IWC had gone to the videotape, the pictures would have blown your socks off. A huge storm was sweeping across the Northern Hemisphere of our solar system's second largest planet. When we say huge, we mean it.
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- In this mosaic, blue colors highlight the icy rings (2.35 microns), green represents sunlight reflected by the clouds of Saturn (2.86 microns) and red depicts thermal emission from the planet's interior (5.02 microns).
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Diamonds Rain Down on Saturn and Jupiter Storms on Saturn are among the most violent in the solar system, lofting ice 100 miles into the air and shocking the planet with lightning strikes. Saturn’s atmosphere contains a small percentage of methane, whose chemical makeup consists of carbon and hydrogen. When lightning strikes the atmosphere, the carbon and hydrogen separate, leaving isolated carbon atoms to float around and accumulate like flakes of snow in a blizzard.
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- Saturn's atmosphere is composed of 96.3% hydrogen and 3.25% helium with the remaining half percent made up of trace elements. Unfortunately Saturn's atmosphere doesn't match its spectacular ring system, unlike its neighbor Jupiter its cloud cover is rather bland in comparison.
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Temperature on Saturn Temperature on Saturn Saturn has long fascinated people because of the mystique of its rings, which circle the planet’s equator and make it one of the most visually beautiful sights in our Solar System. These rings are composed of bands of small water ice-coated particles and are 250,000 km wide but only as thin as a few tens […]
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How cold is Saturn? The temperature at the top of Saturn's clouds averages -285Â° F(-175 Â°C). The core of Saturn is much hotter, estimated at around11,700 Â°C. The planet gives off about … 2 Â½ times as much heat as it receivesfrom the Sun.
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Atmospheres Atmospheres Jupiter's weather phenomena (clouds, winds storms) are by far the strongest and most active of the jovian planets, but weather is found on all four. Like Jupiter, Saturn has stripes of alternating color and wind direction, though in more subdued colors.
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What Color Is Saturn? Full Answer. Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest in the Solar System, with Jupiter being the largest planet. It is considered a gas giant because it is primarily comprised of hydrogen and helium gas and does not have a solid surface. As of 2014, Saturn has 62 known moons orbiting around it.
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What Color Is Saturn? Saturn is described as having a yellowish-brown color. This is due to the presence of trace amounts of ammonia, hydrocarbons, water vapor and phosphine in its atmosphere.
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Saturn's Temperature: One Cool Planet Temperatures in Saturn's atmosphere increase along with pressure the closer one travels to the center. As a giant gas planet, Saturn doesn't have solid ground; scientists set the surface of the planet at the point where pressure is equal to that of sea level on Earth. Saturn contains three layers of clouds.The upper layers of ammonia ice have temperatures ranging from minus 280 F (minus 173 C) to minus 170 F (113 C).he interior may reach temperatures of up to 21,000 F (11,700 C). Because the distance to Saturn from the sun averages 886 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers), most of the planet's heat comes from its core. Saturn radiates more than twice as much heat into space as it receives from the sun.