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Asked by ltlupus1 to Ailsa, Evan, James, Kath, Ryan on 21 Jun 2011.
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Ryan Ladd answered on 21 Jun 2011:
Very very cold and very very toxic! Saturn is made up from all kinds of unpleasant chemicals and probably doesn’t have a solid surface to stand on! Saturn is actually called a “gas giant”, not all of the planet is thought to be gas but certainly lots more than Earth.
It’s also very windy, apparently the wind can reach speeds of 1800 kilometres per hour. Even the strongest tornadoes on Earth only get as fast as 480 kilometres per hour!
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Ailsa Powell answered on 21 Jun 2011:
I think Ryan is right – there is some kind of rocky core to the planet, but it’s many gas. It’s nothing like Earth and the atmosphere would be extremely toxic to us. I can’t believe the strength of those winds! It’s completely beyond imagination!
It’s certainly not somewhere I’d like to go on holiday 😉
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Evan Keane answered on 21 Jun 2011:
Very cold I’m afraid. It is on the cold side of the “goldilocks zone” which I talked about before here: http://ias.im/44.679 That means that we could not live there. In any event the planet is gassy and not a rocky planet Earth (Mercury, Venus and Mars are the other rocky planets). The gas is not exactly breathable either and there are many other reasons you don’t want to live there.
But what about if you don’t want to stay there – just be a tourist. It is actually a really cool planet! Maybe if you hitched a ride on Cassini which is a spacecraft orbitting Saturn at the moment which we sent out. You would get some great views if you could do this. You could see Saturn eclipsing the Sun
northern lights on Jupiter 
or you could get close-ups of the rings http://www.astronet.ru/db/xware/msg/1201529 (can you see the moon Prometheus in this picture?) or maybe even close-ups of moons 
(this is the moon hyperion, and I think it looks like a sponge!). 😀
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