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Saturn is a large planet with rings made from countless pieces of ice, rock, and dust.
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Saturn has a representative mean diameter of about 116,460 kilometres; the scale value does not include its rings.
In Depth
Rapid rotation makes Saturn oblate. The explorer therefore uses a representative mean diameter rather than the ring boundary.
Scale measurement
116,500 km · diameter
Quick facts
- It is the sixth planet from the Sun.
- It is a gas giant.
- Its rings contain countless particles.
Related objects
- orbits: Sun
- member-of: Solar System
- compared-with: Jupiter