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    rise to Saturn's planetary magnetic field, which is weaker than Earth's, but which has a magnetic moment 580 times that of Earth due to Saturn's larger...
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    2010. "Saturn's Moons". Astronomy Cast episode No. 61, includes full transcript. Retrieved 26 May 2010. Carolyn Porco. Fly me to the moons of Saturn. Retrieved...
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Planet (category Observational astronomy)
    geophysical planet is Saturn's moon Mimas, with a radius about 3.1% of Earth's and a mass about 0.00063% of Earth's. Saturn's smaller moon Phoebe, currently...
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    moon of Saturn and the 19th-largest in the Solar System. It is about 500 kilometers (310 miles) in diameter, about a tenth of that of Saturn's largest...
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    have rings, although only Saturn's ring system is easily observed from Earth. The outer atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn are composed mainly of gases...
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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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    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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    Cassini's trajectory took it into Saturn's upper atmosphere and it burned up in order to prevent any risk of contaminating Saturn's moons, which might have offered...
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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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    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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    outer radius of approximately 90 million km (about 640 times the extent of Saturn's rings). Cleared gaps in the rings indicate satellites ("exomoons") have...
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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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  • 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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    शनैश्चर, IAST: Śanaiścara), is the divine personification of the planet Saturn in Hinduism, and is one of the nine heavenly objects (Navagraha) in Hindu...
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  • 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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    In astronomy, a syzygy (/ˈsɪzədʒi/ SIZ-ə-jee; from Ancient Greek συζυγία (suzugía) 'union, yoke') is a roughly straight-line configuration of three or...
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    Pan (moon) (redirect from Saturn XVIII)
    moon of Saturn. It is a small, ravioli-shaped moon approximately 35 kilometres across and 23 km wide that orbits within the Encke Gap in Saturn's A Ring...
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    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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    above and below Saturn's rings (2006-04-29). Janus and Tethys (foreground) near Saturn's rings (2015-10-27). Janus in front of Saturn as imaged by Cassini...
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    (/aɪˈæpətəs/) is the outermost of Saturn's large moons. With an estimated diameter of 1,469 km, it is the third-largest moon of Saturn and the eleventh-largest...
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    ISBN 1593371977. Greene, Liz (1976). Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil. Schostak, Sherene; Weiss, Stefanie Iris (2003). Surviving Saturn's Return: Overcoming the Most...
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    Jupiter (redirect from Jupiter (astronomy))
    (August 2017). "The EBLM project. III. A Saturn-size low-mass star at the hydrogen-burning limit". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 604: 6. arXiv:1706.08781...
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  • Chrysalis (hypothetical moon) (category Moons of Saturn)
    apart by Saturn's tidal forces, somewhere between 200 and 100 million years ago. Up to 99% of the moon's mass would have been swallowed by Saturn, with the...
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