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| Saturn imaged by the Cassini orbiter |
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| A global storm girdles the planet in 2011. The head of the storm (bright area) passes the tail circling around the left limb. |
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| HST UV image of Saturn taken near equinox showing both polar aurorae. |
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| North polar hexagonal cloud feature, discovered by Voyager 1 and confirmed in 2006 by Cassini. |
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| A rough comparison of the sizes of Saturn and Earth. |
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| A montage of Saturn and its principalmoons (Dione, Tethys, Mimas, Enceladus,Rhea and Titan; Iapetus not shown). This famous image was created from photographs taken in November 1980 by theVoyager 1 spacecraft. |
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| Saturn eclipses the Sun, as seen fromCassini. |
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| The rings of Saturn (imaged here by Cassiniin 2007) are the most massive and conspicuous in the Solar System.[28] |
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| Robert Hooke noted the shadows (a and b) cast by both the globe and the rings on each other in this drawing of Saturn in 1666. |
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| The average distance between Saturn and the Sun is over 1,400,000,000 km (9AU). It takes Saturn 10,759 Earth days (or about 29½ years), to finish one revolution around the Sun. |
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| False-color UV image of Saturn's outer Band A rings; dirtier ringlets in the Cassini Division and Enke Gap show up red. |
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