... satellites were identified during the Voyager spacecraft flybys of Saturn in the early 1980s. Until the International ... If all four satellites are new, then the total number of known satellites orbiting Saturn will grow from 18 to 22. ...
... Prometheus . Saturn XVI - 1980S27 . Prometheus [pra-MEE-thee-us] is the third of Saturn's known satellites. ... Prometheus acts as a shepherd satellite for the inner edge of Saturn's F Ring . ...
... Pandora . Saturn X - 1980S26 . Pandora [pan-DOR-uh] is the fourth of Saturn's known satellites. ... Pandora is the outer shepherd satellite for Saturn's F-ring. ...
... Atlas, the second of Saturn's known satellites, orbits near the outer edge of the A-ring and is about 40 by 20 kilometers (25 ... It is probably a shepherd satellite for Saturn's A-ring. ...
... The Discovery of the Galilean Satellites . Courtesy of: NASA/JPL . ... that Galileo Galilei made to science was the discovery of the four satellites around Jupiter that are now named in his honor ...
... Pan, the innermost known satellite, was found from photographs taken by Voyager during its encounter with Saturn. ... Showalter, Mark R., "Visual detection of 1981S13, Saturn's eighteenth satellite, and its role in the Encke gap," Nature , Vol. ...
... 0.5 . Key: Name Name of the planet or satellite. Vo Objects visible magnitude at opposition. Distance Distance to the Sun or to the planet center. ...