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How long is a full rotation on Saturn?
10 hours, 45 minutes, 45
Cassini took readings of the day-length indicator regarded as most reliable, the rhythm of natural radio signals from the planet. The results give 10 hours, 45 minutes, 45 seconds (plus or minus 36 seconds) as the length of time it takes Saturn to complete each rotation.
How fast does Saturn take to rotate?
Saturn rotates about once every 10.5 hours. The planet’s high-speed spin causes Saturn to bulge at its equator and flatten at its poles. The planet is around 75,000 miles (120,000 kilometers) across at its equator, and 68,000 miles (109,000 km) from pole to pole.
How many rotations does Saturn make a day?
A Day On Saturn: Despite its massive size, the planet has an estimated rotational velocity of 9.87 km/s (35,500 km/h, or 22058.677 mph). As such Saturn takes about 10 hours and 33 minutes to complete a single sidereal rotation, making a single day on Saturn less than half of what it is here on Earth.
How long does it take Saturn to complete a day?
Saturn rotates faster than Earth so a day on Saturn is shorter than a day on Earth. A day on Saturn is 10.656 hours long while a day on Earth is 23.934 hours long.
How much would a 100 pound person weigh Saturn?
107 pounds
The surface gravity on Saturn is about 107% of the surface gravity on Earth, so if you weigh 100 pounds on Earth, you would weigh 107 pounds on Saturn (assuming you could find someplace to, well, stand).
How hot can it get on Saturn?
Heating sources The interior may reach temperatures of up to 21,000 F (11,700 C). Because the distance to Saturn from the sun averages 886 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers), most of the planet’s heat comes from its core. Saturn radiates more than twice as much heat into space as it receives from the sun.
How long does it take Saturn to orbit around the Sun?
One day on Saturn takes only 10.7 hours (the time it takes for Saturn to rotate or spin around once), and Saturn makes a complete orbit around the Sun (a year in Saturnian time) in about 29.4 Earth years (10,756 Earth days).
How long does it take for Saturn’s magnetic field to rotate?
System III is based on the rotation of Saturn’s magnetic field, and was measured by NASA’s voyager spacecraft. They determined that Saturn’s magnetic field takes 10 hours and 39 minutes to complete a rotation. But here’s a strange mystery. The rotation of the magnetic field was measured again by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in 2004,…
What is the rotation speed of Saturn above the equatorial belt?
The System I rotation speed is 10 hours and 14 minutes. Above and below the Equatorial Belt is called System II. Here the rotation speed is 10 hours and 39 minutes.
+ Click for audio. These sounds of radio emissions from Saturn have been compressed in time so that one second corresponds to one rotation of the planet. + Full caption and animation from University of Iowa. Cassini took readings of the day-length indicator regarded as most reliable, the rhythm of natural radio signals from the planet.