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TIL that, as a gas giant, Saturn doesn’t have a true surface. The planet is mostly gases and liquids deeper down. While a spacecraft couldn't land on Saturn, it wouldn’t be able to fly through it. The extreme pressures and temperatures would vaporize any spacecraft trying to fly into the planet.

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