Mar 16, 2025
why'd they name saturn's moon "janus" that??? very annoying!
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why'd they name saturn's moon "janus" that??? very annoying!
Solar System Tournament Round 1-4
MIMAS vs LUNA
This is the fifth match of the 32s round. Our contenders are:
Mimas
Mimas is a small moon orbiting Saturn. Mimas' most distinct physical feature is the massive Herschel Crater, which causes Mimas to be compared to the Death Star in terms of appearance. This crater and the mass redistribution it's caused have been theorized to be the cause for unexplained libration (wiggling). Another explanation is that Mimas could have a subsurface ocean.
Class: Major Moon
Visitors: Pioneer 11 (distant observation), Voyager 1 (distant observation), Voyager 2 9distant observation), Cassini (flyby)
Wikipedia
Luna
Luna, also known as the Moon, is a medium-size moon orbiting Earth. It's the closest target for long distance space missions, and has been visited countless times by small probes and landers, and even by humans several times. On Earth, its limited influence can cause tides and eclipses, and humans used the phases of the moon as a time measurement system which ultimately resulted in calendar months.
Class: Major Moon
Visitors: A lot (>100) including 6 successful manned landings
Wikipedia
Which celestial body is better?
Mimas
Luna
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It’s Cassini-Huygens Day
Cassini’s Saturn
Titan
Enceladus
Iapetus
Mimas
Dione
Tethys
Phoebe
Hyperion
Prometheus
Pan
Pandora
Epimetheus
Janus
Though this was long?
Saturn has at least 150 moons and moonlets in total, though only 62 have confirmed orbits and only 53 have been given official names. Most of these moons are small, icy bodies that are little more than parts of its impressive ring system.
Thank you Cassini spacecraft and the Cassini-Huygens Team.
Happy Cassini-Huygens Day!
Prometheus and the Ghostly F Ring
Solar System Tournament Round 1-12
TITAN vs MAKEMAKE
This is the twelfth match of the 32s round. Our contenders are:
Titan
Titan is a large moon of Saturn with a dense nitrogen atmosphere with thick methane cloud cover. It has lakes of liquid methane, and is the only celestial body in the entire solar system besides Earth to have running liquid on its surface and a water cycle (methane cycle?). It's rich in complex organic compounds, and may harbor a subsurface water ocean as well. Titan is one of the main candidates in the solar system for extraterrestrial life.
Class: Major Moon
Visitors: Pioneer 11 (distant observation), Voyager 1 (distant observation), Voyager 2 (distant observation), Cassini (flyby), Huygens (landing (!!!))
Wikipedia
Makemake
Makemake is a distant and small dwarf planet out in the Kuiper Belt. Despite the SpaceEngine rendering showing it as grey, it appears redder than most dwarf planets. It may have a transient atmosphere, or an atmosphere that freezes into ice when Makemake cools down and then sublimates back into an atmosphere when Makemake warms up, but the data is insufficient to confirm or deny this.
Class: Dwarf Planet
Visitors: N/A (telescope observations only)
Wikipedia
Which celestial body is better?
Titan
Makemake
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What An Adventure
Saturn's Moon Pan from Cassini
Saturn and its moons, Bray Falls