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AstronomyThe Moons of Saturn
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Saturn has over 62 known moons. Saturn's moons range in size from very small moons, referred to as 'moonlets' which are less than a kilometer in diameter, to it's largest moon Tita... |
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AstronomyThe Moons of Saturn
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Pan
Pan is a walnut shaped moon and it orbits Saturn in a region of Saturn's A Ring known as the Encke Gap. The Encke Gap is 325-kilometre-wide gap within the A Ring, and it is actually caused b... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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29 March 2013
Ringside with Rhea
Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA
Orbiting in the plane of Saturn's rings, Saturnian moons have a perpetual ringside view of the gas g... |
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5 January 2013
Stereo Helene
Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA; Stereo Image by Roberto Beltramini
Get out your red/blue glasses and float next to Helene, small, icy moon of Satu... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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16 September 2012
Saturn: Bright Tethys and Ancient Rings
Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA
How old are Saturn's rings? No one is quite sure. One possibility is that t... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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6 November 2012
Methone: Smooth Egg Moon of Saturn
Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA
Why is this moon shaped like a smooth egg? The robotic Cassini spacecraft completed the... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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22 December 2012
Saturn at Night
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Space Science Institute, Cassini Imaging Team
Splendors seldom seen are revealed in this glorious picture from Saturn's sha... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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20 February 2013
Saturn's Hexagon and Rings
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Why would clouds form a hexagon on Saturn? Nobody is sure. Originally discovered during th... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85060 Views Science & Technology Forum |
31 December 2012
Saturn's Rings from the Dark Side
Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA
What do Saturn's rings look like from the dark side? From Earth, we usually s... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85060 Views Science & Technology Forum |
4 December 2012
In the Center of Saturn's North Polar Vortex
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
What's happening at the north pole of Saturn? A vortex of strange an... |
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AstronomyThe Moons of Saturn
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S/2009 S 1
S/2009 S 1 is a moonlet - which means it is a 'particularly small natural satellite'. Indeed, it is very small with an approximate diameter of only 400 meters (1,300 ft).
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ride the outter ring of your own private saturn... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85060 Views Science & Technology Forum |
5 November 2012
Saturn's Moon Dione in Slight Color
Image Credit: NASA, JPL, SSI, ESA; Post Processing: Marc Canale
Why does one half of Dione have more craters than the other? Start with t... |
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AstronomyStrange Astronomy Facts
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1) Saturn would float if you put it in a large enough body of water. Although Saturn is very large, as well as being the second largest planet in our Solar System, it is less dense than water because... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85060 Views Science & Technology Forum |
28 October 2012
Doomed Moon of Mars
Image Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA
This moon is doomed. Mars, the red planet named for the Roman god of war, has two tiny moons, Phobos and Dei... |
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Alternative Beliefsreal or just a myth?
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Im not too sure about this but i think a while ago now scientists said they found small life forms (germs or something similar) on one of Jupiters/Saturns moons. Im not too sure abuut this, just askin... |
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21 January 2013
Huygens: Titan Descent Movie
Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL/U. Arizona; Music: Beethoven's Piano Concerto #4; YouTube Upload: djxatlanta,
What would it look like to land on Saturn... |
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25 February 2013
Fly Me to the Moons
Image Credit & Copyright: Greg Gibbs (Capturing the Night
Sometimes the Moon is a busy direction. Last week, for example, our very Moon passed in front o... |
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So you think you know everything!
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Mythbusters YEY!!!!!!!
I suppose it depends which part of the world you are in as to what the cycles of the moon are at that given moment in time.
Have you ever heard of blue moons. Now that is... |
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The person above me
5 Posts • 4829 Views Jokes & Games |
Many moons ago when I had first arrived at UGN and started reading many posts I ran into numerous by OKcity kid and at first i thought this guy was some crazed dog bible pushing wierdo. The discussion... |
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AstronomyExcerp: The Solar System
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The solar system began as a cloud of dust and gas. The cloud began to spin and contract. It contracted into a disc with the sun at the center. Planets formed from the disk. Gravity caused rocky, terre... |
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What is the nature of man?
40 Posts • 10625 Views Philosophy Forum |
human nature is to prosper and elevate to the next stage of existance. since the first atom to evolve into an eruption, to a star , to a galaxy, to galaxies , planets, moons , universe, earth , bacter... |
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AstronomyMartian saltwater announcement
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What I meant by being not surprised about the eventual discovery of alien life is that in a Universe as big as ours, over a period of 15 billion years or so, there must have been and will be in the fu... |
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Random PicturesRandom picture thread.
1169 Posts • 297574 Views Photos, Videos & Music Forum |
While orbiting the planet during their June 1998 mission, the crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery photographed this view of two moons of Earth. Thick storm clouds are visible in the lovely blue planet... |
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