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Hubble's deep field image

Hubble's deep field image

Monday, 3 June 2013

Saturn

Saturn is the sixth and second largest planet in our solar system. Its atmosphere is made up of methane and its rings of rock and ice. Saturn is well known for its rings of rocks and ice. The rocks scale up to 2 km to a speck of dust! It also has auroras. Saturn can have winds up to 300 mph. It has 60 moons.

Picture-ring nebula

This most be very expensive

Uranus

Ok, get the laughter out of you! Uranus is a gas giant with rings. It's axis is the opposite to Earths and it has 27 moons. Its atmosphere is made up of hydrogen, helium and methane. It takes roughly 17 hours to have one day and takes 84 years to orbit the sun.