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In Depth | Saturn Moons – NASA Solar System Exploration Doing so bought Cassini time – more than a decade – to linger and watch Saturn’s exotic zoo of 80-plus moons like no spacecraft before Cassini looked, listened, sniffed and even tasted Saturn’s moons, and what it learned about them is nothing less than extraordinary
In Depth | Moons – NASA Solar System Exploration Many of Jupiter's outer moons have highly elliptical orbits and orbit backwards (opposite to the spin of the planet) Saturn, Uranus and Neptune also have some irregular moons, which orbit far from their respective planets Saturn has two ocean moons – Enceladus and Titan
In Depth | Enceladus – NASA Solar System Exploration Few worlds in our solar system are as compelling as Saturn’s icy ocean moon Enceladus A handful of worlds are thought to have liquid water oceans beneath their frozen shell, but Enceladus sprays its ocean out into space where a spacecraft can sample it
In Depth | Titan – NASA Solar System Exploration In Depth Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an icy world whose surface is completely obscured by a golden hazy atmosphere Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system Only Jupiter's moon Ganymede is larger, by just 2 percent Titan is bigger than Earth's moon, and larger than even the planet Mercury
Enceladus, Moon of Saturn - NASA Solar System Exploration icy moon of Saturn with remarkable activity near its south pole Covered in water ice that reflects sunlight like freshly fallen snow, Enceladus reflects almost 100 percent of the sunlight that strikes it
Planet Compare - NASA Solar System Exploration NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system
In Depth | Tethys – NASA Solar System Exploration These smaller moons are held in Lagrangian points (L4 and L5, respectively), where objects are stable with the larger controlling body These three moons complete their orbits around Saturn moving as a unit, spaced out at 60-degree intervals first Telesto, then Tethys, followed by Calypso
The Forces that Sculpt Saturns Rings - NASA Solar System Exploration The moons’ effects are most important when the moons are near the rings or at various resonances Nearby moons are responsible for two narrow gaps in the rings Other features are produced by more distant moons via Resonances of A ring
Cassini Maps of Saturns Moons Provide Guideposts for Future Explorers Like the ancient cartographers of old, scientists working with images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's icy airless moons have carefully crafted detailed maps that one day may guide future explorers across the surfaces of these remote bodies