Saturn
gas giant · the ringed planet
8.62 AU from Earth
Its icy rings span 20 Earths yet are about 10 metres thick. Titan, bigger than Mercury, circles far outside them wrapped in orange haze.
- inside the rings: countless chunks of water ice
- from dust grains to boulders the size of houses
Numbers that change with time are from 8 November 2026.
open Saturn in the atlas ›- kind
- place in the Solar System
- distance
- 9.42 AU from the Sun
- size
- 116,000 km across
- orbits
- the Sun
- orbiting it
- Titan · Enceladus · Mimas · Tethys · Dione · Rhea
More places in the Solar System
- Jupiter gas giant
- Uranus ice giant
- Neptune ice giant
- Mars rocky planet
- Copernicus a crater on the Moon
- Tycho a young crater on the Moon
- Apollo 17 landing site in the valley of Taurus-Littrow, on the Moon
- Apollo 16 landing site at Descartes, on the Moon