Planet
Saturn
Gas giant
The ringed jewel
Saturn's spectacular rings are made of countless ice and rock particles, spanning about 280,000 km but often only around 10 m thick. The planet is so low in density it would float in a large enough ocean.
In your sky
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Key facts
Distance
9.54 AU from the Sun (mean)
Diameter
116,460 km
Orbital period
29.4 years
Day length
10 h 33 min
Moons
274 confirmed
Did you know
- Its average density (0.69 g/cm³) is lower than water.
- A hexagon-shaped jet stream circles its north pole.
- NASA's Cassini orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017.
