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10 need-to-know facts about Saturn, per NASA. According to NASA, these are 10 things you need to know about Saturn: ... Cassini spacecraft studies Saturn for years, sending back stellar images.
Saturn is named after the Roman god of wealth and agriculture, who was the father of the god Jupiter.Its astronomical symbol has been traced back to the Greek Oxyrhynchus Papyri, where it can be seen to be a Greek kappa-rho ligature with a horizontal stroke, as an abbreviation for Κρονος (), the Greek name for the planet (). [35]
Mimas, also designated Saturn I, is the seventh-largest natural satellite of Saturn. With a mean diameter of 396.4 kilometres or 246.3 miles, Mimas is the smallest astronomical body known to be roughly rounded in shape due to its own gravity.
Saturn – sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius about nine times that of Earth . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Although only one-eighth the average density of Earth, with its larger volume Saturn is just over 95 times more massive.
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft sent back images looking over the shoulder of Saturn's rings. See more on Saturn's rings: No telescope on this planet would ever have been able to see this.
Article on Saturn's Northern Electrostatic Disturbance Archived 2012-09-10 at the Wayback Machine on Sky and Telescope; 1990/1 Hubble Space Telescope image; 2006: observed with a 12" telescope by amateurs near Paris. Volunteers Help NASA Track Return of the Dragon Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine; Kidger, Mark (1992).
Something Weird Is Going On Inside Saturn We may have found water on Mars, but something far stranger is happening inside Saturn. Astronomers have noticed unusual movement in Saturn's rings.