🪐 Planet
Saturn
The ringed giant, light enough to float in water.
- Size
- 116,000 km across, 9.1 times wider than Earth
- A day lasts
- 10.7 hours
- A year lasts
- 29.4 Earth years
- Moons
- 293
- Average temperature
- −140 °C
- Gravity
- 1.1× Earth’s
- From the Sun
- 1.4 billion km
📍 Where is it now?
Seen against the stars of Cetus, 1.3 billion km from Earth. Its light takes 1 hour 11 minutes to reach us.
Drifting backwards against the stars until 10 December, as Earth overtakes it.
Did you know?
- Its rings are made of countless pieces of ice and rock, some as small as dust and some as big as houses.
- It has more known moons than any other planet.
Photographed or visited by
Voyager 1
The furthest human object, still calling home after 49 years.
Voyager 2
The only spacecraft that has ever visited Uranus and Neptune.
Cassini–Huygens
Thirteen years around Saturn, and a landing on Titan.
Compare Saturn with EarthSide by side, to scale, in the app
More NASA photos of SaturnStraight from NASA’s image library, in the app
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All of solar system
Mercury
The smallest planet, and the closest to the Sun.
Venus
The hottest planet, hidden under thick clouds.
Earth
Our home, the only world known to have life.
Mars
The red planet, with the tallest volcano in the solar system.
Jupiter
The biggest planet, with a storm larger than Earth.
Uranus
The ice giant that rolls around the Sun on its side.