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 * __THE WONDERS OF SATURN!__**

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to take a vacation with your family to a place that no one has ever been? Well, you and your family could possibly be the first people to take a trip to the planet Saturn. With an equatorial diameter of 1.2x10, that is a lot of space for you and your happy family. Saturn's axis tilt is 25.33, so while there you would definitely experience some different seasons. Speaking of weather, the wind speed there is 1100 miles per hour. It also has some very breathe taking auroras at the poles occasionally. It also has clouds with ammonia crystals. Saturn's atmosphere contains ninety- seven percent hydrogen with the rest of the three percent being small amounts of helium. The only disadvantage of this planet is that it doesn't have any geographic features. ( Hamilton, 2005) You can play many games on the twenty-one moons of Saturn. The most popular game that you could play is spaceball. The name Saturn came from a god. The god's name was obviously Saturn, and he was the god of harvest or time of reaping. But, the actual planet Saturn was founded by Galileo in 1610. Getting to Saturn is probably the worst part, but it is definitely worth all the time. From our home planet, the Earth, it is 1.2 billion kilometers, and traveling at the speed of 30,000 kilometers per hour it would take 3.6x10¹³. Saturn's days are ten hours and thirty nine minutes long, and the length of Saturn's year is 29.5 Earth years! The worst temperature it has gotten on Saturn was -175 degrees Celsius! (Arnett, 2005) Some interesting facts about this amazing planet is that is has some sources of internal heat! Also, Titan's surface is always about -180 degrees Celsius! Did you also know that we got the word Saturday from the god Saturn, which is where we got the planet Saturn's name too! From far away, Saturn looks very interesting and looks like it has millions of colors on it. Those colors from the colored bands that are on Saturn.

- Johnson, Torrence (1982, January). Saturn. Retrieved January 27, 2009, from www.solarviews.com Web site: http://www.solarviews.com/eng/saturn.htm - Arnett, Bill (2005). Saturn. Retrieved January 27, 2009, from www.nineplanets.org Web site: http://www.nineplanets.org/saturn.html