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- In Depth | Saturn Moons – NASA Solar System Exploration
Doing so bought Cassini time – more than a decade – to linger and watch Saturn’s exotic zoo of 80-plus moons like no spacecraft before Cassini looked, listened, sniffed and even tasted Saturn’s moons, and what it learned about them is nothing less than extraordinary
- In Depth | Moons – NASA Solar System Exploration
Many of Jupiter's outer moons have highly elliptical orbits and orbit backwards (opposite to the spin of the planet) Saturn, Uranus and Neptune also have some irregular moons, which orbit far from their respective planets Saturn has two ocean moons – Enceladus and Titan
- In Depth | Enceladus – NASA Solar System Exploration
Few worlds in our solar system are as compelling as Saturn’s icy ocean moon Enceladus A handful of worlds are thought to have liquid water oceans beneath their frozen shell, but Enceladus sprays its ocean out into space where a spacecraft can sample it
- In Depth | Titan – NASA Solar System Exploration
In Depth Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an icy world whose surface is completely obscured by a golden hazy atmosphere Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system Only Jupiter's moon Ganymede is larger, by just 2 percent Titan is bigger than Earth's moon, and larger than even the planet Mercury
- Planet Compare – NASA Solar System Exploration
NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system
- In Depth | Tethys – NASA Solar System Exploration
These smaller moons are held in Lagrangian points (L4 and L5, respectively), where objects are stable with the larger controlling body These three moons complete their orbits around Saturn moving as a unit, spaced out at 60-degree intervals first Telesto, then Tethys, followed by Calypso
- Enceladus, Moon of Saturn - NASA Solar System Exploration
Enceladus (pronounced en-SELL-ah-dus) is an icy moon of Saturn with remarkable activity near its south pole Covered in water ice that reflects sunlight like freshly fallen snow, Enceladus reflects almost 100 percent of the sunlight that strikes it
- In Depth | Ganymede – NASA Solar System Exploration
Not only is it the largest moon in our solar system, bigger than the planet Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, but NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede
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