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Space Objects
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)
Sheet 005 · Plate 1 of 1 · 1:1 infographic
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