Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar system after Jupiter. Saturn, as well as Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune, are classified as gas giants. Saturn is named after the Roman God of agriculture.Go to the section "#Saturn in culture " the Saturn Symbol is a sickle (Unicode:♄).

Basically, Saturn consists of hydrogen, with admixtures of helium and traces of water, methane, ammonia and heavy elements. The inner region is a relatively small core of iron, Nickel, and ice, covered with a thin layer of metallic hydrogen and a gaseous outer layer.Go to the section "# Internal structure" the Outer atmosphere of the planet seems calm and uniform from space, although sometimes long-term formations appear on it. The wind speed on Saturn can reach in places 1800 km / h, which is much more than on Jupiter.Go to the section "# Atmosphere and structure " Saturn has a planetary magnetic field that occupies an intermediate position in intensity between The earth's magnetic field and the powerful field of Jupiter. Saturn's magnetic field extends 1,000,000 kilometers in the direction of the Sun. The shock wave was detected by Voyager 1 at a distance of 26.2 radius of Saturn from the planet itself, the magnetopause is located at a distance of 22.9 radius.Go to the section " #Magnetic field»

Saturn has a prominent system of rings, consisting mostly of ice particles, a smaller amount of heavy elements and dust.Go to the section "# Rings " around the planet there are 82 currently known satellites[2]. Titan is the largest of them, as well as the second largest satellite in the Solar system (after Jupiter's moon, Ganymede), which is larger than mercury and has the only dense atmosphere among the satellites of the planets of the Solar system.Go to the section " #Satellites»

Saturn is a source of intense radio emissions, which have been monitored by the Cassini spacecraft. The radio waves are closely related to the auroras near the poles of the planet. These auroras are similar to Earth's northern and southern lights. This is an audio file of radio emissions from Saturn.

The Cassini spacecraft began detecting these radio emissions in April 2002, when Cassini was 374 million kilometers (234 million miles) from the planet, using the Cassini radio and plasma wave science instrument. The radio and plasma wave instrument has now provided the first high resolution observations of these emissions, showing an amazing array of variations in frequency and time. The complex radio spectrum with rising and falling tones, is very similar to Earth's auroral radio emissions. These structures indicate that there are numerous small radio sources moving along magnetic field lines threading the auroral region.

Time on this recording has been compressed, so that 73 seconds corresponds to 27 minutes. Since the frequencies of these emissions are well above the audio frequency range, we have shifted them downward by a factor of 44.