Lord of the Rings
Saturn
The showpiece of the solar system. Saturn's magnificent rings of ice and rock span hundreds of thousands of kilometers, yet the planet itself is so light it would float in water.
Size compared to Earth9.45× Earth's diameter
Full bar = Jupiter, the largest planet
Vital statistics
- Diameter
- 120,536 km
- Distance from Sun
- 1433.5 million km
- Orbital period
- 29.4 Earth years
- Day length
- 10.7 hours
- Moons
- 146
- Mean temperature
- -140°C
Notable facts
Saturn's density is lower than water — in a big enough ocean, it would float.
The rings are incredibly thin: hundreds of thousands of kilometers wide, but often just 10 meters thick.
Its moon Titan has rivers, lakes, and rain — made of liquid methane instead of water.
A hexagonal jet stream, wider than two Earths, swirls around Saturn's north pole.
Next stop
Uranus