Saturn is the 6th planet from the Sun and was discovered by Galileo in 1610. It was named Cronus by the Greeks and was also known as the god of agriculture.

1 rotation of Saturn is longer than the orbit around the Sun. It has at least 30 moons and over 100 000 rings.

Its atmosphere has a very thick layer of hydrogen and helium and also has some methane.

More information is on this website: www.kidsastronomy.com/saturn.htm

Titan

Recently, in class we had to make a fact sheet. I did mine on Tian and here are some facts about it.

Titan is Saturn's largest moon and the second largest in the solar system. It was discovered by Christaan Huygens (and that isn't a spelling mistake) in 1655, whilst using a newly improved telescope to Galileo's original telescope. It has a dense atmosphere and is similar to Earth, i.e. it probably can produce life.

In 2005, the space probe, Huygens, landed on Titan in memory of Christaan Huygens.

The only liquid on there is frozen methane and in years to come we will probably live there (although the sun would have to get older to create enough heat for humans)

Here are a couple of pictures of Titan: