Breath of the Ocean

Saturn’s Stunning Rings

ANRIC CAROLINO • 5TH GRADE

WRITTEN DURING A YOUNG WRITERS PUBLISH PROJECT AT P.S. 316

Did you know that Saturn is about 4 million miles away from Earth? To get to Saturn, you have to be in a rocket. It might take a while and when I say a while, I mean like months, years, or tens of years. Once you get near Saturn you will see the beautiful two rings, but if you look closer, the rings are made of tons of rocks, like a nonillion of them. The rings of Saturn are called the A ring and B ring. They are divided because Saturn's moon, Mimas, is pulling them away from each other.

You will also see Saturn's moons. Titan is the secondlargest moon in the solar system and one of the oldest. Enceladus is one of the newest moons with it only being 100 million years old. About the same age as Saturn's rings.

Since Saturn is a gas giant, it would be impossible to land on it. There would be no surface and the pressure of Saturn would crush you. You would only survive for seconds.

But you could still orbit it and see the beautiful rings. If you want to, you can land on the moons but just beware of the methane of titan. If you bring some cameras, you could take pictures of the beautiful rings and the moons. You could also eat while looking at the beautiful rings and moons. I would recommend going to Saturn because of its beautiful rings and the moons.