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Saturn
Saturn orbits the Sun at a mean distance of 1.427 billion km with a
period of 29.4577 tropical years. The orbit is inclined 2.49 degrees to
the ecliptic, or Earth orbital, plane and has an eccentricity of 0.0556.
At Saturn's distance from the Sun, it receives only 0.01 of the unit solar
radiation flux that the Earth does. Among planets in the solar system,
Saturn is second in size only to Jup ....
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.... gas transforms into a liquid.
Further down the pressures increase to a critical level, and there the
hydrogen becomes metallic. A small core of silicate material probably
exists at the center.
The Saturnian atmosphere is characterized by counterflowing
easterly and westerly jet streams that, at the equator, reach a speed of
480 m/sec relative to the clouds at 40 degrees latitude. The zonal jets do
not change appreciably with time, but smaller-scale spots, waves, and
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