2D Puzzle of the Planet Saturn in our Solar System
- 600 pieces
- Size when assembled: 65 cm diameter
- Suitable for children from 9 years
Caution: danger of suffocation. Not suitable for children under 3 years. Small parts may be swallowed
Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet in the solar system as seen from the Sun and, with an equatorial diameter of about 120,500 kilometres (9.5 times Earth's diameter), the second largest after Jupiter. However, with 95 Earth masses, it has only 30 % of Jupiter's mass. Because of its conspicuous ring system, visible even in a small telescope, it is often called the ring planet, although ring systems have also been found on the other three gas planets. Saturn has an average distance from the Sun of a good 1.43 billion kilometres, its orbit runs between that of Jupiter and that of Uranus, which is further away from the Sun. It is the outermost planet that is also clearly visible to the naked eye and was therefore known thousands of years before the invention of the telescope. As a gas planet, Saturn has no solid surface. Its upper layers consist of about 96% hydrogen. Of all the planets in the solar system, Saturn has the lowest average density (about 0.69 g/cm³). Saturn stands out from the other planets because of its distinctive, bright and long-known rings, which consist largely of water ice and rock fragments. The apparent angular diameter of the planetary body is between 15″ and 20″, depending on the distance from Earth, and that of the rings between 37″ and 46″. The so-called equatorial stripes of the cloud layers are less distinct on Saturn than on Jupiter, which is probably related to a high-layered haze. As of 2019, 82 of Saturn's moons have been discovered, more than Jupiter's. Saturn's largest moon by far is Titan, with a diameter of 5150 kilometres.