Parc del Garraf

Diameter

Saturn is 120,536 km in diameter and here it is 12 cm, slightly smaller than a handball.

Duration of the day

The day on Saturn is very short, 10 hours and 34 minutes.

Year duration

Instead the years would pass us slowly. A Saturnian year equals 29.5 Earth years.

Distance to the sun

It is about 10 times farther from the Sun than we are, at 1,433 million km. At 1.43 kilometers from the Sun in this model represented at Garraf.

Satellites

82 satellites are currently known. The largest is Titan, larger than Mercury, and with an atmosphere slightly denser than Earth's.

Composition

It is a huge sphere of gas, mostly hydrogen and helium. The clouds that form the alternately light and dark belts contain water, ammonia, and ammonium disulfide with traces of phosphorus, sulfur, and hydrocarbons.

Surface temperature

At the level of the atmosphere equivalent to the pressure of a terrestrial atmosphere, the temperature is 139 ° C below zero. Indoors, it will surely reach 12,000 ° C.

Gravity

At the level of an atmosphere of pressure we would experience a weight only 10% greater than what you notice right now.

Density

0.7 g / cm³. Like birch wood.

Did you know...

… That Saturn is less dense than water? If we were to throw it into a great ocean, it would float.

… That the rings are made of an infinity of ice particles that revolve around Saturn? Neither with the most powerful telescopes nor with approaching spacecraft can we discern these particles.

… That Saturn is the slowest planet of all the bright ones? After 30 years, he occupies the same position in heaven.