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[37] [2] These discoveries brought Saturn's total number of confirmed moons up to 145, making it the first planet known to have over 100 moons. [37] [38] [39] Yet another moon, S/2006 S 20, was announced on 23 May 2023, bringing Saturn's total count moons to 146. [2]
Including these large moons, 24 of Saturn's moons are regular, and traditionally named after Titans or other figures associated with the mythological Saturn. The remaining 122 are irregular, and classified by their orbital characteristics into Inuit , Norse , and Gallic groups, and their names are chosen from the corresponding mythologies the ...
Saturn LVII (unnamed moon of Saturn) S/2004 S 26 — Saturn LVIII: Eggther: S/2004 S 27 — Saturn LIX (unnamed moons of Saturn) S/2004 S 28 — — S/2004 S 29 — Saturn LX: Beli: S/2004 S 30 — Saturn LXI i: 12 December 2004 p: 8 October 2019 (unnamed moon of Saturn) S/2004 S 31 — — Gunnlod: S/2004 S 32 — Saturn LXII Thiazzi: S/2004 S ...
The new discovery increases the moons orbiting the "jewel of our solar system" to 82, surpassing Jupiter 20 new moons were discovered around Saturn Skip to main content
Saturn's moon Mimas, for example, has a major axis 9% greater than its polar axis and 5% greater than its other equatorial axis. Methone, another of Saturn's moons, is only around 3 km in diameter and visibly egg-shaped. The effect is smaller on the largest natural satellites, where their gravity is greater relative to the effects of tidal ...
On January 14, 2005, the tiny Huygens probe—an integral facet of NASA’s Cassini mission—floated down through a thick haze and onto a sandy riverbed on the surface of Saturn’s largest moon.
A deep ocean exists beneath the icy, cratered surface of Saturn’s moon Mimas, according to a new analysis of data from NASA’s Cassini mission.
Titan orbits Saturn at 20 Saturn radii or 1,200,000 km above Saturn's apparent surface. From Titan's surface, Saturn, disregarding its rings, subtends an arc of 5.09 degrees, and if it were visible through the moon's thick atmosphere, it would appear 11.4 times larger in the sky, in diameter, than the Moon from Earth, which subtends 0.48° of arc.