Saturn
The jewel of the solar system
Famed for its dazzling ring system of ice and rock. Saturn is so low in density it would float in water — if you could find a bathtub big enough.
Image: NASA / Cassini
Vital statistics
Moons
146 known
Gravity vs Earth
1.07 g
Day length
10h 33m
Year length
29.5 Earth years
Diameter
116,460 km
Ring span
282,000 km
Did you know
Saturn's rings are mostly water ice, just 10 m thick on average.
Fact 01
Hexagonal storm at the north pole is wider than Earth.
Fact 02
Density is less than water — 0.687 g/cm³.
Fact 03
Research & publications
Jump straight into peer-reviewed papers, preprints and authoritative references for Saturn.
arXiv (preprints)
Open-access preprints in physics & astrophysics.
NASA ADS
The definitive bibliographic database for astronomy.
Google Scholar
Cross-publisher academic search.
Nature
Peer-reviewed articles in Nature & sister journals.
Wikipedia
Encyclopedic overview & onward references.
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