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It is estimated that the A Ring contains 7,000–8,000 propellers larger than 0.8 km in size and millions larger than 0.25 km. [4] In April 2014, NASA scientists reported the possible consolidation of a new moon within the A Ring, implying that Saturn's present moons may have formed in a similar process in the past when Saturn's ring system was ...
Enceladus is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn and the 18th-largest in the Solar System. It is about 500 kilometers (310 miles) in diameter, [5] about a tenth of that of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. It is mostly covered by fresh, clean ice, making it one of the most reflective bodies of the Solar System.
Icy moons warmed by tides may be the most common type of celestial body in the galaxy to have liquid water, [3] and thus the most likely type of object to possibly have water-based life. Some icy moons exhibit cryovolcanism, as well as geysers. The best studied example is Saturn's Enceladus.
A deep ocean exists beneath the icy, cratered surface of Saturn’s moon Mimas, according to a new analysis of data from NASA’s Cassini mission.
Saturn’s Moon Mimas, known as the “Death Star”, has revealed a new secret.. A “remarkably young” ocean appears to be hiding under the icy, cratered surface of the world that led to it ...
Rhea is the second largest moon of Saturn, but with a mean diameter of 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) it is less than a third the radius of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Rhea is an icy body with a density of about 1.236 g/cm 3. This low density indicates that it is made of ~25% rock (density ~3.25 g/cm 3) and ~75% water ice (density ~0.93 g/cm 3).
Dione (/ d aɪ ˈ oʊ n i /), also designated Saturn IV, is the fourth-largest moon of Saturn.With a mean diameter of 1,123 km and a density of about 1.48 g/cm 3, Dione is composed of an icy mantle and crust overlying a silicate rocky core, with rock and water ice roughly equal in mass.
Plumes from the moon Enceladus, which seems similar in chemical makeup to comets, [12] have been shown to be the source of the material in the E Ring. [13] The E Ring is the widest and outermost ring of Saturn (except for the tenuous Phoebe ring). It is an extremely wide but diffuse disk of microscopic icy or dusty material.