... discovery of Pan, an analysis of the patterns in the edge of Saturn's A ring predicted the size and location of a small moon ... I t is possible that there are more moons within Saturn's rings yet to be discovered. more images . from LANL . ...
... of up to two-and-a-half hours through the dense atmosphere of Saturn'smoon Titan ... Agency's Huygens probe descends to the surface of Saturn'smoon Titan (in foreground ...
... 61 identified moons in the solar system, only three other satellites are known to have atmospheres: Jupiter's volcanically active moon Io (sulfur dioxide), Saturn's largest moon Titan (nitrogen/methane) and Neptune's largest moon Triton (nitrogen/methane ...
Mimas . ... The surface is icy and heavily cratered. ... Because Mimas has such a low temperature of about -200њ C (-328њF), the impact features may date back to the time of the moon's creation. One of the craters, named Herschel, is surprisingly large...
Hyperion . Saturn IV . Hyperion [hi-PEER-ee-en] is one of the smaller moons of Saturn. ... Hyperion might have had a major collision which blew part of the moon away. ... The moon's rotational period is not constant and varies from one orbit to the next...
... Saturn's Possible New Moons . Facts . Pictures . More about new Saturnian moons. ... the normally bright glare of the rings is absent. 13 of Saturn's 18 known moons were discovered during ring plane crossings ...
Iapetus . Saturn VI . Iapetus [eye-AP-i-tus] is one of the stranger moons of Saturn. ... Its leading side is dark with a slight reddish color while its trailing side is bright. ... If the dark material is thin, it must be constantly renewed since a...
... Dione's icy surface includes heavily cratered terrain, moderately cratered plains, lightly cratered plains, and whispy material. The heavily cratered terrain has numerous craters greater than 100 kilometers in diameter. ... Much of the heavily...
... It is postulated that Enceladus is heated by a tidal mechanism similar to Jupiter'smoon Io . ... It is perturbed in its orbit by Saturn's gravitational field and by the large neighboring satellites Tethys and Dione . ...