Saturn’s sidekicks 🦸
NASASolarSystem’s Cassini spacecraft looks across Saturn’s unlit ringplane as its moons appear side by side in this image captured in visible light on July 3, 2006.
While these two moons look like two peas in a pod, they are some of many. Saturn has 146 moons in orbit, which can range in size from larger than the planet Mercury – the giant moon Titan – to as small as a sports arena. The moons shape, contribute to and also collect material from Saturn’s rings and magnetosphere.
Image description: Two moons are side by side above Saturn’s rings in a black-and-white image. Mimas appears smaller and darker with a slim crescent of light reflected from the Sun. Dione appears much larger, also with a slim crescent; it appears dimly lit by reflected light from Saturn. Saturn’s shadow stretches across the rings at the bottom of the image.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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