planet · the Solar System
Saturn
The ringed gas giant, whose icy rings span 280 000 kilometres but are only tens of metres thick.
- Type
- Planet
- Orbits
- the Sun
- Distance
- in the Solar System
- Diameter
- about 116,464 km
About Saturn
- Saturn is less dense than water.
- NASA's Cassini orbited it from 2004 until 2017.
- In IKAREE, the Cassini Ring Station mines water ice at the outer edge of the B ring.
Cassini Ring Station
A ring-plane science and ice-mining station that harvests water ice from Saturn's rings and studies the ring system.. Location in the game: Saturn ring plane, outer edge of the B ring.
Visit Saturn in VR
In IKAREE, Saturn is one of 31 destinations modelled in detail. Sit in the captain's chair, give the order and watch it grow on the main viewscreen. Then send a survey probe and ride its camera down, or ask your science officer what the sensors show.
How to get there
- CaptainHelm, set a course for Saturn. Full impulse.
- Brooks · HelmCourse laid in for Saturn, Captain.
- CaptainScience, full analysis of Saturn.
- Hart · ScienceRunning it now, Captain.
