#saturns moons

[odinsblog]

Saturn, the planet with the most known moons in our solar system: 146

[solarballsmug]

I think it shall be an AU of some sorts. While I do love the awesome and amayzing Trillistio ship, these two for some reason have been in my mind for A DECENT TIME so I said "ok I can't take it. Let's make this and see what happens next!"

(i need help with the ship name: My first thought is "dIOne" but hMM...)

[savagebeautyqueen]

Saturn & its moons

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[zespaceblog]

Titan and Dione

Cassini captured a wealth of images from Saturn, not just the gas giant and the rings, but the moons of Saturn too.

Titan in particular caught the imagination (the larger brown/orange moon above) with a liquid cycle, rivers, streams, lakes and seas, albeit of liquid hydrocarbons and not water. In fact, on Titan, water is a rock, pebbles of it strewn the landscape, while shimmering seas give a peculiarly Earth like view, although it is -179'c so you may want to wrap up warm.

Then there's Dione, a block of ice in of itself, with a rocky core.

But what's magical about the Cassini images, it gives us a fleeting moment in orbit with the gas giant, to see what was really there at that moment, to reach out and touch and imagine what we'd see if only we'd been there too.

The value of such probes cannot just be measured in the mission success, or even the science and understanding that can be gained from it, they are a teleport for every human to go to another place, far from our daily humdrum, and dream of what could be.

[the-cosmics-blog-v2]

Cosmic Titan

Friends: cosmic moon cosmic Pluto cosmic Eris cosmic ceres etc.

Favorite food: raisin canes and salt rocks ( yes salt rocks XD )

More to be added in the future…

[lsmontoya]

Enceladus

What do you think Enceladus hides in its underground ocean?

Enceladus is a small world orbiting Saturn more than a billion (yes, billion) kilometers away from Earth. Being so far from the Sun, you would expect a dead moon, but in the case of Enceladus, appearances are deceiving.

Scientists discovered, thanks to the Cassini mission, evidence of a global ocean of salty water beneath its crust, kept liquid because of the heat generated due to orbital resonance and tidal forces.

Imagine a world with a global underground ocean. What kind of creatures would evolve in such a place? What forces would guide their evolution?

Amazing photo by Fidel Fernando on Unsplash

[opticallyaddicted]

Planetary Landscapes

Moon Ballet ---  From left to right: Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Mimas and Rhea in a dance around Saturn and its Rings...Fantastic Cassini...Credit: NASA/SSI/ Image processing: Gordan Ugarkovic.

[astromechapunk]

Saturn’s Moon Rhea and Epimetheus