Saturn in Space

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Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system and Jupiter is the largest.

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Saturn is a gas giant and the small rocky core is covered with liquid gas.

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Saturn is surrounded by a system of rings that stretch out into space for thousands of kilometres.

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Saturn is similar to Jupiter as it has many moons that surround it. So far there are 30 moons and many more are being discovered. Out of the 30 there are 18 that are named.

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The rings are made up of millions of ice crystals, some as big as houses and others as small as specks of dust.

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Saturn is not a peaceful planet. Storm winds race around the atmosphere at 800kmp/h.

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Saturn is named after the Roman god of agriculture. The day Saturday is also named after him.

Saturn is very light as it It takes about 29.46 is made up of more Earth years for Saturn to hydrogen than helium so orbit around our sun. it is less dense. If we could fit Saturn into a bathtub it would float.

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Sixth planet from the Ring names are Titan is the largest of Sun, between Jupiter alphabetical in order of Saturn's moons, and is and Uranus their discovery larger than the planets Mercury and Pluto

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Other planets have rings. Saturn's rings are the only ones that can be seen from Earth. All you need is a small telescope

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Saturn spins on its axis very fast. A day on Saturn is 10 hours and 14 minutes.

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The Ringed Planet is so far away from the Sun that it receives much less sunlight than we do here on Earth.

Saturn in Space
Players: 3 4 Rules:
1. Each player selects a token. 2. Player 1 rolls the dice and moves forward that number of spaces. 3. Players take turns at rolling dice and moving along the board game. 4. When players land on the spaces they must read the instruction and move backwards or forwards as directed. 5. When players land on a Did you know space they pick up an interesting fact card from the pile and read it out loud. 6. The winner is the first player to reach Saturn.