What Time is it on Saturn? We Finally Know

The Time on Saturn
For years, the length of a day on Saturn has remained an unsolved puzzle to frustrated astronomers. But now, a graduate student from the University of California Santa Cruz believes that he has finally solved the mystery. Christopher Mankovich used the planet’s rings to determine that a day on Saturn lasts for 10 hours, 33 minutes, and 38 seconds.Being a gas giant, Saturn has no solid surface that researchers can track in order to time the planet’s rotation. B