Cosmic Scale
Saturn vs The Moon: size comparison
Saturn is about 33.5 times wider than The Moon: 116,500 km across against 3,475 km.
Compare them in 3D, at true scale
| Saturn | The Moon | |
|---|---|---|
| Diameter | 116,500 km | 3,475 km |
| Mass | 5.68 × 10²⁶ kg | 7.34 × 10²² kg |
| Light crosses it in | 0.39 seconds | 0.01 seconds |
- Saturn has about 37,700 times the volume of The Moon.
- Saturn is about 7,740 times more massive than The Moon.
- Light takes 0.39 seconds to cross Saturn, and 0.01 seconds to cross The Moon.
Saturn: So light for its size it would float in a big enough bathtub.
The Moon: It drifts about 3.8 cm farther from Earth every year.