Distance from the Sun: 891 million miles

            Length of the day: 10 hours 34 minutes

            Radius: 36,184 miles

           Rings Diameter:175,000 miles across & half a mile thick.

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant, with an average radius of about nine times that of Earth. It has an eighth the average density of Earth but is over 95 times more massive.

Recent discoveries shows that Saturn has 274 moons in its orbit, more than any other planet. The moons range in size from larger than the planet Mercury – the giant moon Titan – to as small as a sports arena. The small moon Enceladus has a global ocean under a thick, icy shell.  The moon Titan has clouds, rain, rivers, lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbons like methane and ethane. The largest seas are hundreds of feet deep and hundreds of miles wide.