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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
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.... 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
eddies were seen on voyager spacecraft images to change a time scale of
hours. Such smaller features are usually hard to observe on Saturn because
of an obscuring haze layer above the planet's cloud s ....
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