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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 • 85160 Views Science & Technology Forum |
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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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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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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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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AstronomyStrange Astronomy Facts
4 Posts • 6838 Views Science & Technology Forum |
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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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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ZEITGEIST
16 Posts • 6414 Views Photos, Videos & Music Forum |
Opening The Star-Gate
(after reading 'Signs in the sky' by Adrian Gilbert)
As above, so below,
The signs are there for all to know,
Unlock the gate with the key of time,
Over Saturn... |
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216 Posts • 85160 Views Science & Technology Forum |
14 February 2013
Solar System Portrait
Image Credit: Voyager Project, NASA
On another Valentine's Day (February 14, 1990), cruising four billion miles from the Sun, the Voyager 1 spacecraft... |
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1 October 2012
Introducing Comet ISON
Image Credit & Copyright: Ligustri Rolando
Could this dim spot brighten into one of the brightest comets ever? It's possible. Alternatively, the co... |
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Astrology, Myth Or Magic?
6 Posts • 2716 Views Talk Talk |
Astrology
As the Earth is only one of a few planets circling the sun we can easily follow the movement of the others. Today we can see much further with our new telescopes but even in ancient times... |
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PoetryMusings of the Cynics
19 Posts • 6261 Views Stories & Poetry Forum |
I've never been one to write musical lyrics. To me, rhythm is a cage by which rhyme must coincide. But tonight, after a phone call with a girl I once loved, I found that it was the easiest meter... |
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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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God in ReligionWho created God
3 Posts • 3834 Views Religion Forum |
God has no beginning and no end because God is unimaginable. The beginning and the end must be also unimaginable for an unimaginable item. The beginning and the end of the cosmic energy or space or th... |
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