Saturn (Shani in Sanskrit, and Indian astronomy) is 1.2 billion km away from Earth, and has 95 times Earth's mass. While Earth rotates around its own axis in 24 hours, Saturn rotates in 10.67 hours. We call Earth's journey around the sun one year; Saturn's takes 29.5 Earth years. Its gravity is almost the same as Earth's. It has 60 known moons revolving around it, and many clouds of elemental debris.
The following picture was taken by Voyager I, NASA.
The rings which you see in the pictures, when seen from space by powerful telescopes, in close-ups look exactly the same as my picture, which is also published here below; only my picture was taken on my desk. It is strange that otherwise it is indistinguishable from the original close-up of Saturn's rings.
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