High!

EagleSun wrote:

> The Saturn was done by POV-Ray, and the planet with life was done by
> Terragen, hope it's ok to mix images like that.

If you mean o.k. in terms of scientific accuracy - yes, it is, in fact, 
gas giants in Earth-like orbits whose moons (if large enough) could 
support life already have been discovered, for example:
http://www.jtwinc.com/planettour.asp?StarCatID=normal&PlanetID=210

But, in such an orbit, a gas giant probably would look different than 
Saturn - less hazy because of its higher temperature, and with white 
clouds of water droplets/water ice crystals rather than brown-yellowish 
frozen hydrocarbons; towards the equator the latitudinally banded clouds 
gradually would give way to deep blue cloudless atmosphere.

Still, the planet would probably have a more or less developed ring 
system - as with all gas giants in the Solar System!

See you in Khyberspace!

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