How Long Is a Day on Saturn? Scientists Finally Have an Answer

An image of Saturn captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in 2016. The rings of Saturn have been used to work out the length of a day on the planet. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
How long is a day on Saturn? This figure was hard to calculate because the gas giant does not have a solid surface and a magnetic field makes the rate of rotation hard to see. But now scientists have used data from Cassini to pin down a final answer: a day is ten hours, 33 minutes, and 38 seconds long.

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