Ithaca Chasma is an ancient and gigantic rift cutting across the heavily cratered surface of Tethys. Less surprising than many of the other moons of Saturn, Tethys does have its own mysteries, including [...]
Telesto is a Trojan moon of Tethys orbiting Saturn 60 degrees ahead of Tethys. Cassini took the best ever images of this tiny moon on October 11, 2005.
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Cassini-Huygens [...]
Out of nowhere emerged a Saturn moon to rival Titan in mystery and activity. Here, suddenly, was an ice world not dead but alive and active, spewing out water ice and oxygen from [...]
Two of the newest moons discovered by Cassini, Pallene and Methone are tiny worlds that lie between the orbits of Enceladus and Mimas. The image above may or may not show these two [...]
Herschel Crater covers nearly a third of the diameter of Saturn’s small moon Mimas, helping it to resemble the Death Star from Star Wars. Some of the most breathtaking images taken by Cassini [...]
The tiny and irregular shaped Epimetheus orbits Saturn with a similar moon called Janus, both of which may have formed when a larger body was broken up during a collision earlier in its [...]
Janus is quite similar to Epimetheus. Both moon share the same orbit and trade places with each other every four years. Janus is heavily cratered and likely very ancient.
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Cassini-Huygens [...]
The craters on the tiny moon Pandora are muted compared to craters on larger moons because they are filled with collapsed debris. The surface is also covered in fine icy material, perhaps as [...]
Prometheus is another shepherd moon of Saturn’s F ring. The gravitational tug of shepherd moons and their often eccentric orbits help shape unique structures in Saturn’s rings.
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Cassini-Huygens [...]
Atlas is a tiny shepherd moon just outside Saturn’s A ring. Very little is know about this moon.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Pan
Atlas
Prometheus
Pandora
Janus
Epimetheus
Mimas
Pallene [...]