Can Saturn float on water?

Saturn could float in water because it is mostly made of gas. (Earth is made of rocks and stuff.) It is very windy on Saturn. Winds around the equator can be 1,800 kilometers per hour.
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Why the Saturn is floating in water?

Saturn is very large and is the second largest planet in the Solar System. However, it is made up mostly of gas and is less dense than water. Since it is lighter than water, it can float on water. None of the other planets in our Solar System can do this because they have a higher density than water.
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Can Saturn float in a bathtub?

Saturn has the lowest density of any planet, 0.7 g/cc, which is less than that of water. Saturn is of such low density that it would float in a (gigantic) bathtub. However, you would not want to put Saturn in a bathtub.
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Can Jupiter and Saturn float on water?

Jupiter's average density is 1.4 gm/cm3, so a sphere of its size and mass would sink. In fact, both Saturn and Jupiter are gaseous planets. There is no solid surface defining their outer diameters, so trying to float either would not be possible even if a large enough ocean could be found.
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Can u stand on Saturn's rings?

While they look like giant discs, they're not a solid track at all. Instead, they're made of millions of chunks of ice, some as tiny as dust particles, others as large as buses. But if you were able to hike on one of Saturn's outermost rings, you'll walk about 12 million kilometers to make it around the longest one.
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Is Saturn hot or cold?

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.
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Can Uranus float on water?

In fact, if you could find a pool big enough it would float on it. Imagine a pool that size. Uranus comes in second as the least dense planet. What this means that instead of floating, Uranus would actually sink in water.
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What is Earth's sister planet?

Venus is often called "Earth's twin" because they're similar in size and structure, but Venus has extreme surface heat and a dense, toxic atmosphere.
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Can Neptune float on water?

Just to give you some comparison, the density of water is 1 g/sm3. In other words, if you had a bathtub big enough, Neptune would sink into it. This is different for Saturn which has a density of less than 1. While Neptune sinks, Saturn would float.
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Does it rain diamonds on Saturn?

About 10 million tons of diamond rain down on Saturn each year. The new molecule is relatively heavy, and when attracted by the planet's gravity, begins to be drawn downwards.
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Can Jupiter float on water?

Just for comparison, Jupiter has an average density of 1.33 grams per cubic centimeter. So it wouldn't float on water.
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Which planet can float in water?

Saturn could float in water because it is mostly made of gas.
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What planet has 16 hours in a day?

Jupiter takes just 10 hours to complete one rotation. Saturn takes 11 hours, Uranus takes 17 hours, and Neptune takes 16 hours.
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Does Saturn have oxygen?

Data from the Cassini-Huygens satellite showing oxygen ions in the atmosphere around Saturn's rings suggests once again that molecular oxygen alone isn't a reliable indicator of whether a planet can support life.
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Who is Earth's evil twin?

Venus has been called Earth's "evil twin" because it is about the same size as Earth and probably was created out of similar stuff; it might have even had at one time oceans of liquid water. But Venus appears to have suffered a runaway greenhouse effect.
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Is there only 1 Sun in the universe?

There are billions of stars larger or smaller than SUn in the Galaxy..But we call them stars only.. So we have only one Sun.
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Does Uranus rain diamonds?

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. Only a single space mission, Voyager 2, has flown by to reveal some of their secrets, so diamond rain has remained only a hypothesis.
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What planet is the coldest?

The coldest planet in our solar system on record goes to Uranus which is closer to the Sun and 'only' about 20 times further away from the Sun than the Earth is. The lowest temperature recorded there was minus 224 degrees Celsius.
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Is Saturn lighter than Earth?

The mass of Saturn is 95 times the mass of Earth. However, Saturn's gravity is only 1.08 times the gravity on Earth because Saturn is such a large planet. An object weighing 100 lbs on Earth would weigh 108 lbs on Saturn. Saturn is less dense than water.
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Can humans go to Saturn?

The planet is mostly swirling gases and liquids deeper down. While a spacecraft would have nowhere to land on Saturn, it wouldn't be able to fly through unscathed either. The extreme pressures and temperatures deep inside the planet would crush, melt, and vaporize any spacecraft trying to fly into the planet.
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Why is Saturn called Saturn?

Saturn was named after the Roman god of agriculture. According to myth, Saturn introduced agriculture to his people by teaching them how to farm the land. Saturn was also the Roman god of time and this is perhaps why the slowest (in orbit around the Sun) of the five bright planets was named after him.
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What Colour is Saturn?

Viewed from Earth, Saturn has an overall hazy yellow-brown appearance. The surface that is seen through telescopes and in spacecraft images is actually a complex of cloud layers decorated by many small-scale features, such as red, brown, and white spots, bands, eddies, and vortices, that vary over a fairly short time.
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