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Saturn’s Moons

Cassini’s Majestic Saturn Moon Quintet

September 17, 2011

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Check out this gorgeous new portrait of a Saturnian moon quintet taken by Earths’ emissary – NASA’s Cassini Orbiter. The moons are majestically poised along a backdrop of Saturn’s rings, fit for an artist’s canvas. Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Mimas and Rhea [...]

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Cassini Captures a Menagerie of Moons

August 2, 2011

This stunning new Cassini image was captured on July 29, 2011, and shows a portion of Saturn’s rings along with several moons dotting the view. How many moons can you find, and can you name them? See below for a color version of this image, put together by our own Jason Major! Remove this ad

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What’s up with Iapetus?

June 12, 2011

  Although Saturn’s moon Iapetus was first discovered in 1671 by Giovanni Cassini, its behavior was extremely odd. Cassini was able to regularly find the moon when it was to the west of Saturn, but when he waited for it to swing around to Saturn’s east side, it seemed to vanish. It wasn’t until 1705 [...]

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Shepherd Moons

February 9, 2011

Shepherd moons are small moons that orbit close to the outer edges of planetary rings or within gaps that lie within the rings themselves. The gravitational forces of shepherd moons serve to maintain a sharply defined edge to the ring. These forces cause material that drifts close to a shepherd moon’s orbit to be deflected [...]

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Stunning Flyover Videos of Saturn’s Moons

August 20, 2010

Saturn’s moons as you’ve never seen them before! By day, Dr. Paul Schenk works at the Lunar and Planetary Institute mapping the topography and geology of the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, as well as the icy bodies of the outer solar system. But because “it’s just plain cool,” he has created some flyover videos [...]

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