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Saturn

A gas giant famous for its bright rings of ice and rock, some only about ten metres thick yet hundreds of thousands of kilometres wide.

Mass5.6830e+26 kg
Radius58,232 km
Surface gravity10.44 m/s²
Escape velocity35.5 km/s
Day length (rotation)10.7 hours
Year length (orbit)10,747 Earth days
Distance from Sun9.537 AU
Mean temperature-140 °C
Moons146+ confirmed

Source: NASA Planetary Fact Sheet. Values are means/approximations for education.

Try it: your weight on Saturn

On Mars (gravity 3.71 m/s²) you would weigh 259.7 N — a scale would read about 26.482 kg. Your mass (70 kg) never changes.