Saturn in 3D: live position and orbit

Famous for its spectacular rings, made of billions of chunks of ice and rock. So low in density it would float on water.

Saturn is shown at its real position, computed from NASA/JPL ephemeris data. The view opens on Saturn; you can travel in time, switch between the educational overview and the true-scale voyage, and compare it with every other body of the solar system.

Equatorial radius at 1 bar

60 268 km¹

Mass

5.68 × 10²⁶ kg¹

Gravity at 1 bar

11.19 m/s²¹

Mean temperature at 1 bar

-140 °C¹

Temperature at 1 bar

134 K (-139 °C) (the main table of the same catalogue gives -140 °C, 0.85 K apart)¹

Temperature at 0.1 bar

84 K (-189 °C)¹

Density at 1 bar

0.19 kg/m³¹

Scale height

59.5 km¹

Mean molecular weight

2.07 g/mol¹

Winds

up to 400 m/s below 30° latitude, 150 m/s beyond¹

Mean distance from the Sun

9.537 AU¹

Orbital period

10 756 days¹

Sidereal rotation

10.66 hours¹

Axial tilt

26.7°¹

Known moons

293 (as of August 2026)²

Missions

• Pioneer 11
• Voyager
• HST
• Cassini-Huygens

Flybys

• November 12, 1980: Voyager 1
• August 26, 1981: Voyager 2

Orbit insertions

• July 1, 2004: Cassini

Contacts

• September 15, 2017: Cassini

Sources

1. NASA NSSDCA, Planetary and Satellite Fact Sheets. read 2026-09-17. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html
2. NASA Science, Saturn Moons. read 2026-09-17. https://science.nasa.gov/saturn/moons/