Saturn's Interior is most likely made up of iron nickle and rock at the core. However, it's surrounded by several other compound elements such as: liquid helium, metallic hydrogen, and liquid hydrogen. Roughly seventy five percent hydrogen and twenty five percent helium. Scientists have found only minuscule amounts of oxygen or carbon dioxide. Saturn is known as a gas giant, because it lacks a definite surface and has an oblate shape. Furthermore, Saturn has a magnetic field due to the metallic hydrogen layer. Yet, it's planetary magnetic field is slightly weaker than Earth's and one twentieth the strength of Jupiter's. Saturn's ring system has nine primary rings and three discontinuous arcs. This gas giant has sixty two recognized moons orbiting it and only fifty three have been officially named. Scientists have concluded that Jupiter is only twenty percent larger than Saturn and they have similar qualities. Such as: both are about two thirds hydrogen, they show retrograde motion when they're rising opposite the Sun, and they rotate in about ten hours. The rings of Saturn are almost twenty meters in thickness and ninety three percent ammonia, ice of methane and water ice. It's difficult for scientists to know the temperature of Saturn because of all it's layers and Sun spots. Areas vary from -23 °C to 11,700 °C. Lastly, Saturn's orbital period is estimated at 29.42 years. In addition, Saturn resembles ribbon like cloud structures and the magnetosphere extended only 19 Saturn radii in the Sun's direction. Lastly, the wind velocity on Saturn is estimated at 1800 km/hr, which is four times higher than Jupiter's rate.
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