Saturn and the Earth compared
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Saturn's diameter is about nine times
greater than the Earth's
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It has 95 times the mass
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Despite Saturn's enormous size,
its density is so low that if you were able to stand atop Saturn's clouds, you would feel a pull of gravity slightly less than what you feel on the
Earth
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If you weigh 180 pounds on Earth, you would weigh only 165 pounds at Saturn's cloud
tops
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Saturn is ten times further from
the Sun than the Earth
Saturn has the honor of being the second-largest planet in the Solar System, though it has only 30% the mass of its jovian better Jupiter. Like Jupiter, Saturn is blanketed by thick clouds and is believed to have no
solid surface except for a relatively small, Earth-size core of rock and metals.
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