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Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and
is the second largest in the solar system.

The atmosphere is primarily composed of 75% hydrogen and 25% helium with traces of water and methane like Jupiter.
Saturn's atmosphere has winds which can blow at over 1800 kilometers per hour!

Saturn's ring system makes the planet one of the most beautiful objects in the solar system.
The rings are about 400,000 kilometers (240,000 miles) wide. That's the distance from the Earth to the Moon! But the rings are as little as 100 meters (330 feet) thick. They range from particles too tiny to see to "particles" the size of a bus. Scientists think they are icy snowballs or ice covered rocks.

Over 60 bright and dark ringlets show up in this color enhanced image from Voyager 2 data ( spacecraft ).

(NASA)