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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]
The retrograde moons are grouped into the Carme, Ananke and Pasiphae groups. Saturn has 146 moons with known orbits; 66 of them have received permanent designations, and 63 have been named. Most of them are quite small. Seven moons are large enough to be in hydrostatic equilibrium, including Titan, the second
Traditionally, most of Saturn's moons have been named after Titans of Greek mythology. Titan is the only satellite in the Solar System with a major atmosphere, [106] [107] in which a complex organic chemistry occurs. It is the only satellite with hydrocarbon lakes. [108] [109]
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
It is the only moon known to have an atmosphere denser than the Earth's and is the only known object in space—other than Earth—on which there is clear evidence that stable bodies of liquid exist. Titan is one of seven gravitationally rounded moons of Saturn and the second-most distant among them.
The giant planets have extensive systems of natural satellites, including half a dozen comparable in size to Earth's Moon: the four Galilean moons, Saturn's Titan, and Neptune's Triton. Saturn has an additional six mid-sized natural satellites massive enough to have achieved hydrostatic equilibrium, and Uranus has five.
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. One of Saturn’s smallest moons has a secret ...
Most of Saturn’s regular moons, the ones that formed along with it, orbit along the same plane. ... Venus does have a tiny quasi-moon named Zoozve, which occupies a strange orbit around Venus ...