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They can scale the planets' relative distances from Kepler's laws. The absolute distance to Venus can be measured by its parallax seen from different places on the Earth's surface simultaneously. From those measurements the distance to Saturn and all the other planets can be calculated.

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Q: How would scientists learn about Saturn being over a million miles away from earth?
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