Cosmic Park & Planetarium

Sharjah Center for Astronomy & Space Sciences - Sharjah

This huge model of the sixth planet in the Solar System, Saturn, is located in the Cosmic Garden. It is part of a scale model of the Solar System with the Sun represented by the golden globe. In this model, Saturn has a diameter of 2.44 meters. Since Saturn has a wide system of rings, an extension has been added to represent the rings with an inner diameter of 4 meters and an outstanding outer diameter of 5.99 meters.The four outer planets, or giant planets (sometimes called Jovian planets), collectively make up 99% of the mass known to orbit the Sun. Jupiter and Saturn are together more than 400 times the mass of Earth and consist overwhelmingly of hydrogen and helium. Uranus and Neptune are far less massive—less than 20 Earth masses each—and are composed primarily of ices. All four giant planets have rings, although only Saturn's ring system is easily observed from Earth. The Saturn display is the largest in the world.