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Saturn

Ringed gas giant · density less than water

The rings are practically all water ice — a sheet hundreds of thousands of kilometres wide and about ten metres thick. Titan is larger than Mercury and has its own dense nitrogen atmosphere and liquid-methane lakes.

Key specifications

Diameter

116,464 km

Density

0.687 g/cm³

Ring span

~280,000 km · ~10 m thick

Moons

146 (incl. Titan)

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Saturn
FIG. 005 — SaturnBlueprint Atlas · Space Objects

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