Saturn is above all well known for its rings, which are the biggest and most spectacular, but it also holds other records.
It is visibly flattened at the poles as a result of the very fast rotation of the planet on its axis.
It has got the greater number of satellites: there have been identified 18 up to now, but probably there are quite a lot of them.
The rings may be the remaining of a frozen satellite that was shattered by the impact with a comet.
Saturn is also the less thick planet; if all the planets were placed into a basin full of water, Saturn would be the only one to float in it.
