In the Solar System · tracked live
Saturn
The second-largest planet, and the one everybody can identify: the rings are almost pure water ice, span two hundred and eighty thousand kilometres and are on average some ten metres thick. The planet itself is less dense than water. Titan, its largest moon, has a thicker atmosphere than the Earth's and rivers and seas of liquid methane; Enceladus vents water from an ocean under its ice.
- Radius
- 60,268 km
- Around the equator
- 378,675 km
- Mass
- 5.68 x 10^26 kg
- Compared with the Earth
- 95 ×
- Turns once in
- 10 h 39 m
- From the Sun
- 1,410,840,586 km (-45,600 km/d)
- From the Earth
- 1,263,523,393 km (+427,715 km/d)
- A signal takes
- 70 min
Distances and speed are computed from JPL Horizons trajectories and are true of the date below, changing at the rate beside each.
Everything the map shows is worked out in your browser from published orbital data - nothing on it is a stored picture of where things were.