by BadCred » Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:06 am
Saturn is a gas giant, like Jupiter, Saturn',s interior structure is mainly that of simple molecules like hydrogen and helium, which are liquids under the high pressure environments found in the interiors of the outer planets, and not solids. Its volume is 755 times greater than that of Earth. The Giant planets don't have the same layered structure that the terrestrial planets do. Their evolution was quite different than that of the terrestrial planets, and they have less hard material. Its rotation period about axis is 10.67 hrs and the revolution period about the Sun is 29.5 years.
The explorations made to study the planet Saturn are compiled in the link below: