Gas giant
Saturn
Its rings are 280,000 km across but mostly only about 10 metres thick, made of countless chunks of water ice.
- Diameter
- 116,460 km
- Gravity
- 1.07 g
- Day
- 10 h 33 min
- Year
- 29.4 Earth years
- Cloud tops
- −139 °C
- Moons
- 146
Can we live on Saturn?
Air: H₂ 96.3%, He 3.25%. Not breathable: you’d need a suit and your own oxygen.
Gravity: 1.06 g. Someone who weighs 70 kg on Earth would weigh 75 kg there.
Clouds: Ammonia clouds; rings of almost pure water ice.
Atmosphere
- H₂ 96.3%
- He 3.25%
- CH₄ 0.45%
- NH₃ <0.1%
Measured by Cassini, NASA fact sheet