rise to Saturn's planetary magnetic field, which is weaker than Earth's, but has a magnetic moment 580 times that of Earth because of Saturn's greater...
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period as Saturn's radio emissions from its interior. The hexagon does not shift in longitude like other clouds in the visible atmosphere. Saturn's hexagon...
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"Saturn's Rings". NASA's Solar System Exploration. Archived from the original on 27 May 2010. Retrieved 26 May 2010. "Saturn's Moons". Astronomy Cast...
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related to Rings of Saturn. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rings of Saturn. Planetary Rings Node: Saturn's Ring System Saturn's Rings by NASA's Solar...
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Titan (moon) (redirect from Titan (astronomy))
Saturn at 20 Saturn radii or 1,200,000 km above Saturn's apparent surface. From Titan's surface, Saturn subtends an arc of 5.09 degrees, and if it were...
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Hyperion (moon) (redirect from Hyperion (astronomy))
speeds, building up volatiles in the atmosphere of Titan. Like most of Saturn's moons, Hyperion's low density indicates that it is composed largely of...
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Phoebe (moon) (redirect from Phoebe (astronomy))
is retrograde; that is, it orbits Saturn opposite to Saturn's rotation. For more than 100 years, Phoebe was Saturn's outermost known moon, until the discovery...
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In astronomy, a conjunction occurs when two astronomical objects or spacecraft appear to be close to each other in the sky. This means they have either...
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Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry...
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examination of Saturn's C Ring McCartney, Gretchen; Wendel, JoAnna (18 January 2019). "Scientists Finally Know What Time It Is on Saturn". NASA. Retrieved...
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Iapetus Geological features on Iapetus Saturn's Inuit group of satellites Kiviuq Ijiraq Paaliaq Siarnaq Tarqeq Saturn's Gallic group of satellites Albiorix...
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Natural satellite (redirect from Satellite (astronomy))
new moons of the planet Saturn David Brand | 26 October 2000 Saturn's New Satellite S/2003 S1 Scott S. Sheppard Portals: Astronomy Spaceflight Outer space...
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Mimas (redirect from Mimas (astronomy))
million years, and is thought to be warmed by Saturn's tidal forces. A number of features in Saturn's rings are related to resonances with Mimas. Mimas...
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Ring system (redirect from Ring system (astronomy))
S2CID 45403579. "NASA - Saturn's Moon Rhea Also May Have Rings". Archived from the original on 2012-10-22. Retrieved 2010-09-16. NASA – Saturn's Moon Rhea Also...
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Solar System (redirect from Astronomy of the solar system)
multiple moons and a ring system, although only Saturn's rings are easily observed from Earth. Jupiter and Saturn are composed mainly of gases with extremely...
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of Saturn's deep interior? Satellite geomorphology: What is the origin of the chain of high mountains that closely follows the equator of Saturn's moon...
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In Saturn's Rings is a large format movie about Saturn made exclusively from real photographs taken by spacecraft. Director Stephen van Vuuren used more...
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Rhea (moon) (redirect from Saturn V (moon))
equilibrium. Rhea has a nearly circular orbit around Saturn, but it is also tidally locked, like Saturn's other major moons; that is, it rotates with the same...
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Galileo Galilei (redirect from Father of modern observational astronomy)
Milky Way, the phases of Venus, the four largest satellites of Jupiter, Saturn's rings, lunar craters and sunspots. He also built an early microscope. Galileo's...
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the Saturn system. More close-up images of Saturn's moons were acquired, as well as evidence of changes in the rings. Voyager 2 probed Saturn's upper...
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Norse group (redirect from Norse group of Saturn's moons)
Denk. Retrieved 6 January 2024. S. Sheppard's classification of Saturn's irregular moons Portals: Astronomy Stars Spaceflight Outer space Solar System...
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Greek Titan Cronus. Saturn's consort was his sister Ops, with whom he fathered Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto, Juno, Ceres and Vesta. Saturn was especially celebrated...
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Prometheus (moon) (redirect from Prometheus (astronomy))
be confirmed. Prometheus is a shepherd satellite for the inner edge of Saturn's narrow F Ring. Pandora orbits just outside the F Ring, and has traditionally...
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Shepherd moon (section Saturn)
such as the Encke Gap maintained by Saturn's moon Pan, or lead to the confining of narrow ringlets, such as Saturn's F ring. The existence of shepherd moons...
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Sun (redirect from Sun (astronomy))
Unsolved problem in astronomy: Why is the Sun's corona so much hotter than the Sun's surface? (more unsolved problems in astronomy) The temperature of...
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Occultation (redirect from Occult (astronomy))
by another object that passes between them. The term is often used in astronomy, but can also refer to any situation in which an object in the foreground...
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Pandora (moon) (redirect from Saturn XVII)
the Cassini probe in 2005; the rings of Saturn are in the background. Cassini captured this close view of Saturn's moon Pandora during the spacecraft's flyby...
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Astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences, dating back to antiquity, with its origins in the religious, mythological, cosmological, calendrical...
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Dwarf planet (redirect from Pluton (astronomy))
forces from its moon Weywot. If so, this would resemble the situation of Saturn's moon Iapetus, which is too oblate for its current spin. Iapetus is generally...
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produced by meteoritic bombardment of Saturn's moon Phoebe might orbit the planet until colliding with Saturn's moon Iapetus and be responsible for the...
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