Saturn - Gas Giant

Adorned with a dazzling, complex system of icy rings, Saturn is unique in our solar system. The other giant planets have rings, but none are as spectacular as Saturn's. **A COLOSSAL PLANET** 1. Nine Earths side by side would almost span Saturn’s diameter. That doesn’t include Saturn’s rings. 2. The sixth planet from our Sun (a star) and orbits at a distance of about 886 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers) from the Sun. 3. Takes about 10.7 hours (no one knows precisely) to rotate on its axis once—a Saturn “day”—and 29 Earth years to orbit the sun. 4. Gas-giant planet and therefore does not have a solid surface like Earth’s. But it might have a solid core somewhere in there. 5. Saturn's atmosphere is made up mostly of hydrogen (H2) and helium (He).