Saturn is the sixth planet and the second largest — a gas giant famous for the brightest, broadest ring system in the Solar System. Around it orbits a swarm of moons, including Titan, the only moon with a thick atmosphere and standing liquid on its surface.
Saturn's rings stretch 280,000 km across yet are often only 10 metres thick. They are made of billions of chunks of water ice and rock, from grains of dust to house-sized boulders, all orbiting in dazzling, gravity-sculpted bands. Likely the shattered remains of a moon or comet.
Saturn is the least dense planet in the Solar System — less dense than water. Drop it in a giant ocean and it would float. Despite being 95 times Earth's mass, it is almost entirely hydrogen and helium with no solid surface to stand on.
Saturn's largest moon Titan is bigger than Mercury and the only moon with a thick atmosphere. Beneath orange haze lie rivers, lakes and seas of liquid methane — the only other place in the Solar System with stable liquid on its surface. A frontier within a frontier.
“The crown of the Solar System — proof that beauty and the frontier are the same direction.”
— CEO GALILEO