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2. Moons of Saturn - Wikipedia

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   An annotated picture of Saturn's many moons captured by the Cassini spacecraft. Shown in the image are Dione, Enceladus, Epimetheus, Prometheus, Mimas, Rhea, Janus, Tethys and Titan. The moons of Saturn are numerous and diverse, ranging from tiny moonlets only tens of meters across to the enormous Titan, which is larger than the planet Mercury.

3. Phoebe (moon) - Wikipedia

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   It is Saturn's ninth-largest moon, but it is the eighth-most massive. Hyperion, another one of Saturn's moons, has a larger radius, but is less massive than Phoebe. Phoebe rotates every nine hours and 16 minutes, and completes a full orbit around Saturn in about 18 months. Its surface temperature is on average 75 K (−198.2 °C).

4. Saturn - Wikipedia

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   Saturn is named after the Roman god of wealth and agriculture, who was the father of the god Jupiter.Its astronomical symbol has been traced back to the Greek Oxyrhynchus Papyri, where it can be seen to be a Greek kappa-rho ligature with a horizontal stroke, as an abbreviation for Κρονος (), the Greek name for the planet (). [35]

5. Titan (moon) - Wikipedia

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   Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the second-largest in the Solar System.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.

6. 20 new moons were discovered around Saturn - AOL

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   The new discovery increases the moons orbiting the "jewel of our solar system" to 82, surpassing Jupiter

7. Tethys (moon) - Wikipedia

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   Tethys (/ ˈ t iː θ ɪ s, ˈ t ɛ θ ɪ s /), or Saturn III, is the fifth-largest moon of Saturn, measuring about 1,060 km (660 mi) across. It was discovered by Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1684, and is named after the titan Tethys of Greek mythology .

8. Janus (moon) - Wikipedia

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   Janus / ˈ dʒ eɪ n ə s / is an inner satellite of Saturn.It is also known as Saturn X.It is named after the mythological Janus.This natural satellite was first identified by Audouin Dollfus on December 15, 1966, although it had been unknowingly photographed earlier by Jean Texereau.

9. Rare lunar occultation of Saturn captured in splendid ... - AOL

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   By ANDREW TAVANI A dramatic celestial event known as an occultation unfolded on Monday, August 4th, and video of the whole dramatic phenomenon was broadcast live over the Internet by Australia's ...