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An annotated picture of Saturn's many moons captured by the Cassini spacecraft. Shown in the image are Dione, Enceladus, Epimetheus, Prometheus, Mimas, Rhea, Janus, Tethys and Titan. The moons of Saturn are numerous and diverse, ranging from tiny moonlets only tens of meters across to the enormous Titan, which is larger than the planet Mercury.
In 1899, William Henry Pickering discovered Phoebe, a highly irregular satellite that does not rotate synchronously with Saturn as the larger moons do. [157] Phoebe was the first such satellite found and it took more than a year to orbit Saturn in a retrograde orbit. During the early 20th century, research on Titan led to the confirmation in ...
The retrograde moons are grouped into the Carme, Ananke and Pasiphae groups. Saturn has 146 moons with known orbits; 66 of them have received permanent designations, and 63 have been named. Most of them are quite small. Seven moons are large enough to be in hydrostatic equilibrium, including Titan, the second
The sizes and masses of many of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn are fairly well known due to numerous observations and interactions of the Galileo and Cassini orbiters; however, many of the moons with a radius less than ~100 km, such as Jupiter's Himalia, have far less certain masses. [5]
The new discovery increases the moons orbiting the "jewel of our solar system" to 82, surpassing Jupiter 20 new moons were discovered around Saturn Skip to main content
Saturn LIX (unnamed moons of Saturn) S/2004 S 28 — — S/2004 S 29 — Saturn LX: Beli: S/2004 S 30 — Saturn LXI i: 12 December 2004 p: 8 October 2019 (unnamed moon of Saturn) S/2004 S 31 — — Gunnlod: S/2004 S 32 — Saturn LXII Thiazzi: S/2004 S 33 — Saturn LXIII (unnamed moon of Saturn) S/2004 S 34 — Saturn LXIV: Alvaldi: S/2004 S ...
Mimas, one of Saturn’s many moons, is best known for Herschel crater, which sci-fi buffs will attest makes the moon look like a dollar-store version of the Death Star. The real mystery? How it ...
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