# Saturn

*In the Solar System*

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.

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| --- | --- |
| 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 | 1,412,548,982 km (-45,675 km/d) |
| From the Earth | 1,280,100,479 km (-1,226,536 km/d) |
| A signal takes | 71 min |

Distances and speed are computed from JPL Horizons trajectories and are true of 2026-09-05, changing at the rate given beside each. The interpolation itself is good to a few kilometres; what ages these figures is the date, not the arithmetic.

## Elsewhere

- On the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?world=solar-system&focus=saturn
- This object as a page: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/saturn/
- Every object: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/
- What this site is and what it reads: https://www.orbitalmap.space/llms.txt