Is there life on Saturn?

Like the other gas giants, Saturn's surface to atmosphere interface is rather nebulous, and likely has a small, rocky core surrounded by a liquid and very thick atmosphere. Saturn is considerably colder than Jupiter being further from the Sun, with an average temperature of about -285 degrees F.

It is fairly easy to see with the naked eye, although it is more than 886 million miles (1.2 billion kilometers) from Earth. Plus, its rings can be observed with a basic amateur telescope—surely a sight you won't forget!

8 rings That's 3 main rings and 5 dusty rings for a total of 8 rings, 9 if you count the Cassini Division. But there are even more rings around Saturn. There's the Janus Ring, the Methone Ring Arc, the Anthe Ring Arc and the Pallene Ring, as well as the Roche Division. 4 more rings and another division.Aug 22, 2009

Like all of the planets, Saturn is named after a character in Roman mythology. Saturn is named after the god Saturnus, the god of agriculture and harvest. Saturn is equivalent to the ancient Greek god Kronos. They decided to make the outermost planet sacred to Kronos, and the Romans did the same.Jan 23, 2009

The second largest planet in the solar system, Saturn is a "gas giant" composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. But it's best known for the bright, beautiful rings that circle its equator. The rings are made up of countless particles of ice and rock that each orbit Saturn independently.

With an average temperature of minus 288 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 178 degrees Celsius), Saturn is a pretty cool planet.Nov 14, 2012

If it rained diamonds on Earth, you'd wouldn't be around to see it. All of humanity would be squashed, and left to suffocate without oxygen in the air.

Deep within Neptune and Uranus, it rains diamonds—or so astronomers and physicists have suspected for nearly 40 years. The outer planets of our Solar System are hard to study, however.

Another planet, 55 Cancri e, has been called a "super-Earth" because, like Earth, it is a rocky planet orbiting a sun-like star, but it has twice the radius and eight times the mass. The researchers who discovered it in 2012 concluded that it was carbon-rich, making an abundance of diamond likely.

Habitability. Robert Zubrin has pointed out that Titan possesses an abundance of all the elements necessary to support life, saying "In certain ways, Titan is the most hospitable extraterrestrial world within our solar system for human colonization." The atmosphere contains plentiful nitrogen and methane.

It is a gas giant, in the sense that most of its mass is made of gas. Its observable atmosphere comprises about 90% hydrogen and 10% helium. It is likely that Saturn's interior contains lots of water, and thus oxygen, possibly at the same proportion as helium.

So, if you tried to walk on this part of Saturn, you would sink through its atmosphere. Saturn's atmosphere is very thick and its pressure increases the deeper you go. After a while, you would stop sinking and unfortunately be crushed by the high pressure deeper in Saturn's atmosphere.

Saturn cannot support life as we know it, but some of Saturn's moons have conditions that might support life.Aug 4, 2021

Venus Venus is the exception, as its proximity to the Sun and dense atmosphere make it our solar system's hottest planet. The average temperatures of planets in our solar system are: Mercury - 800°F (430°C) during the day, -290°F (-180°C) at night. Venus - 880°F (471°C)Jan 30, 2018

Like Jupiter, Saturn formed shortly after our home star first ignited. It's dead-star stuff mixed with gases from the beginning of time, sculpted into sublime form by more than 4 billion years of gravity. Orbiting twice as far from the sun as Jupiter, Saturn is the most distant planet visible to the naked eye.Jan 5, 2016