Is there an atmosphere on Saturn?

Answer 1

Its ring system. It can be seen in fairly small telescopes, and for quite a while, it was believed that it might be quite unique. Later it was discovered that ALL four gas giants in our Solar Systems have rings - but Saturn's are the most outstanding.

Answer 2

Quoting from Wikipedia: "The outer atmosphere of Saturn consists of 96.3% molecular hydrogen and 3.25% helium. Trace amounts of ammonia, acetylene, ethane, phosphine, and methane have also been detected."

Answer 3

Saturn has an atmosphere, but it is not at all like Earth's.

Earth has an atmosphere made mostly of nitrogen and oxygen. Dry air, i.e. not including water vapor, is about 78% Nitrogen, about 21% Oxygen, and about 1% Argon. The amount of water vapor in the air varies considerably from often near zero in desert areas to sometimes more than 5% in hot, humid areas.

Saturn's upper atmosphere is mostly hydrogen and some helium with a fair amount of ammonia clouds and a smattering of acetylene, methane, ethane, and phosphine. Lower levels of the atmosphere are still mostly hydrogen, although the amount of helium increases a bit. Clouds are mostly made up of ammonium hydrosulfide in the middle atmosphere and H2O in the lower atmosphere. Saturn has cloud bands in its atmosphere, but they're pale orange and faded. This orange color is because Saturn has more sulfur in its atmosphere compared to Earth (or, for that matter, than its neighbor Jupiter). Exact compositions are a little tricky to determine since only the outer part of thee atmosphere is readily observable. Scientists are still not even certain if Saturn has a rocky core or not.

Note that while helium is a small fraction of the gas (less than 10%), since it has about 4 times the atomic weight of hydrogen, and twice the molecular mass, it makes up about 25% of the MASS of the atmosphere of Saturn.

Answer 4

The sidereal rotational period of Saturn (1 Saturn day) is 10 hours 45 minutes and 45 seconds which is about 0.4484375 Earth days.

The orbital period of Saturn is 29.4571 Earth years or 10,759.22 Earth days (24,491.07 Saturn days).

Answer 5

Saturn will be at its closest to us at opposition on May 15 2015. Around that date it will be visible high in the sky around midnight. It will be as bright as a magnitude 0 star like Arcturus.

Answer 6

Certainly. Saturn is almost all atmosphere.

Answer 7

I think Saturn has pure darkness and a little lightness because it is far away from the sun

Answer 8

Latest estimates put the figure at 10 hours, 32 minutes

Answer 9

29.7 Earth years.

10,850 Earth days (rounded)

Answer 10

in the solid ground all you can see is clouds because of the gas clouds but i would say kindy of dark