Poland Table of Contents. During the reign of Empress Catherine the Great (1762-96), Russia intensified its manipulation in Polish affairs. Prussia and Austria, the other powers surrounding the republic, also took advantage of internal religious and political bickering to divide up the country in three partition stages. The third partition in 1795 wiped Poland-Lithuania from the map of Europe.
1 Saturn is 886 million miles, or 1426 million kilometres, from the Sun. 2  Distances from the Sun are measured in Astronomical Units (AU). 3  The Earth is the standard unit, and is one AU from the Sun, so an AU equals 150 million kilometres (93 million miles), the distance of the Earth from the Sun.
A false-color view from the Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's rings arcing past the planet's horizon. The image was taken using the spacecraft's red, green and ultraviolet spectral filters on July 16, 2017, at 777,000 miles (1.25 million kilometers) from Saturn. Each pixel spans about 4 miles (7 km).