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Clouds swirl on Saturn, the second-largest planet in our solar system. Like its bigger neighbor Jupiter, Saturn is a gas planet made mostly of hydrogen and helium. Its magnetic field is 578 times more powerful than Earth's.
Photograph courtesy NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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