ABOUT SATURN

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second larges t planet in our solar system.Adorned with thousands of beauti ful ringlets, Saturn is unique among the planets. It is not th e only planet to have rings—made of chunks of ice and rock—bu t none are as spectacular or as complicated as Saturn's. Like fellow gas giant Jupiter, Saturn is a massive ball made mostly of hydrogen and helium. The rings are huge but thin. The main rings could almost go from Earth to the moon. Yet, they are less than a kilometer thick