- *Saturn's Moon: Dione
Dione ("dy OH nee") is the twelfth of Saturn's known satellites. In Greek mythology Dione was the mother of Aphrodite (Venus) by Zeus (Jupiter). Dione was discovered by Cassini in 1684.
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/dione.html
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- *Saturn's Moon: Endeladus
Enceladus ("en SEL a dus") is the eighth of Saturn's known satellites. In Greek mythology Enceladus was a Titan who was defeated in battle and buried under Mount Etna by Athena. It was discovered in 1789 by Herschel.
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/enceladus.html
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- *Saturn's Moon: Iapetus
Iapetus ("eye AP i tus" ) is the seventeenth of Saturn's known satellites and the third largest. In Greek mythology Iapetus was a Titan, the son of Uranus, the father of Prometheus and Atlas and an ancestor of the human race. It was discovered by Cassini in 1671.
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/iapetus.html
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- *Saturn's Moon: Mimas
Mimas ("MY mas") is the seventh of Saturn's known satellites and looks like the "Deathstar" from Star Wars.
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/mimas.html
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- *Saturn's Moon: Rhea
Rhea ("REE a") is the fourteenth of Saturn's known satellites and the second largest. In Greek mythology Rhea was the sister and wife of Cronus (Saturn) and the mother of Demeter, Hades (Pluto), Hera, Hestia, Poseidon (Neptune), and Zeus (Jupiter). It was discovered by Cassini in 1672.
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/rhea.html
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- *Saturn's Moon: Tethys
Tethys ("TEE this") is the ninth of Saturn's known satellites. In Greek mythology Tethys was a Titaness and sea goddess who was both sister and wife of Oceanus. It was discovered by Cassini in 1684.
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/tethys.html
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- *Saturn's Moon: Titan
It was long thought that Titan was the largest satellite in the solar system but recent observations have shown that Titan's atmosphere is so thick that its solid surface is slightly smaller than Ganymede's. Titan is nevertheless larger in diameter than Mercury and larger and more massive than Pluto.
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/titan.html
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- *Saturn's Small Moons
We know next to nothing about these moons. Even the basic mass and size data are not very accurate.
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/satmoons.html
(Added: Mon Oct 28 2002)
- Astronomy Picture of the Day: Saturn
Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/saturn.html
(Added: Mon Oct 28 2002)
- Cassini-Huygens Mission
The Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan is an international venture designed to explore Saturn, her rings, moons, and the vast surrounding region.
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm
(Added: Mon Oct 28 2002)
- Roche Limit
Why don't the individual ring particles accumulate together to form a single satellite? The reason lies entirely in how the gravitational attraction between the planet and the ring particles compares with the ring particle's gravitational attraction to each other.
http://pegasus.phast.umass.edu/a100/handouts/roche.html
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- Saturn - The Nine Planets
The Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. Each page has text and images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information.
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/saturn.html
(Added: Sun Oct 06 2002)
- Saturn Events
This page contains information about how to find Saturn in the night sky and how to locate the moons of Saturn.
http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/astro/saturn.html
(Added: Sun Oct 06 2002)
- Saturn Fact Sheet
Contains the mass, volume, escape velocity, orbital elements, spin rate, information about the moons of Saturn, and many other parameters.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/saturnfact.html
(Added: Sun Oct 06 2002)
- Saturn PC Software
This program displays the relative locations of Saturn's moons for a given date and time.
http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/astro/dansoftware.html
(Added: Mon Oct 28 2002)
- Saturn's Moons
The page shows a montage of 15 of Saturn's satellites (there are more than 15 satellite known today). These range in size from Titan, the second largest moon in the Solar System to small asteroid-like objects.
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/saturn/moons.html
(Added: Mon Oct 28 2002)
- Saturn's Rings
The ring system of Saturn is divided into 5 major components: the G, F, A, B, and C rings, listed from outside to inside (but in reality, these major divisions are subdivided into thousands of individual ringlets). The F and G rings are thin and difficult to see, while the A, B, and C rings are broad and easily visible. The large gap between the A ring and the B ring is called the Cassini division.
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/saturn/rings.html
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- Saturn, its Rings and Satellites - Hubble Space Telescope Images
Amazing pictures from the worlds most well know telescope. Images are organized by year and are provided directly from Hubble's home, the Space Telescope Science Institute.
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/SolarSystemT.html#Saturn
(Added: Mon Oct 28 2002)
- The Surface and Interior of Saturn
The surface of Saturn bears many similarities with the surface of Jupiter, but the color contrast is generally less. This is thought to be due to Saturn being colder than Jupiter (further from the Sun), so it has different chemical reactions in its atmosphere, leading to different coloration.
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/saturn/surface.html
(Added: Mon Oct 28 2002)
- Voyager Saturn Science Summary
The Voyager 1 and 2 Saturn encounters occurred nine months apart, in November 1980 and August 1981. Voyager 1 is leaving the solar system. Voyager 2 completed its encounter with Uranus in January 1986 and with Neptune in August 1989, and is now also en route out of the solar system.
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/vgrsat.htm
(Added: Mon Oct 28 2002)
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