Fact

Saturn is less dense than water

Find a bath big enough and the planet would float in it.

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Saturn’s mean density is about 0.69 grams per cubic centimetre, below water’s 1.0 – the only planet in the solar system for which this is true. It is overwhelmingly hydrogen and helium with no solid surface. The image is a thought experiment, not a scenario: the tides alone would tear both apart.

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