Titan is the largest moon of this planet; Calypso & Telesto are among the smallest
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Moons of Saturn - Wikipedia  The moons of Saturn are numerous and diverse, ranging from tiny moonlets less than 1 ... Particularly notable among Saturn's moons are Titan, the second-largest ... The remaining 38, all small except one, are irregular satellites, whose orbits are ... They are trojan moons of Dione (Helene) and Tethys (Telesto and Calypso).
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How Many Moons Does Saturn Have? - Universe Today  Sep 5, 2016 ... The first to be discovered was Titan, Saturn's largest moon, which was ... Helene (which orbits Dione) as well as Telesto and Calypso (which orbit Tethys). The study of the outer planets has since been revolutionized by the ... There are in fact craters throughout the moon's small surface, making it among the...
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Space Today Online - Moons of the Solar System  Several moons are larger than the planet Pluto and two moons are larger ... Saturn's moon Titan is the second largest in the Solar System with a ... Pandora, Phoebe, Janus, Epimetheus, Helene, Telesto, Calypso, Atlas, Pan, ... When finally uncovered, the moon stood out as a small bright spot in 11 pictures among 30,000...
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Saturn - Moons | Planets - NASA Solar System Exploration  Color photo of Saturn and it's rings and the moons Epimetheus and Titan. Cassini delivers this stunning vista showing small, battered Epimetheus and ... At 5,150 km (3,200 miles) across, it is the second largest moon in the solar system. ... Telesto and Calypso occupy the two Lagrangian points of Tethys in its orbit; Helene...
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Free Flashcards about ASTRONOMY - StudyStack  TITAN IS THE LARGEST MOON OF THIS PLANET; CALYPSO AND TELESTO ARE AMONG THE SMALLEST, SATURN. LATIN FOR "HAIRY STAR", RECENT...
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Titan: Facts About Saturn's Largest Moon - Space.com  Jun 30, 2016 ... Titan is Saturn's largest moon and the second largest in the solar system (after Ganymede of Jupiter). It is the only moon in the solar system with clouds and a dense, planet-like atmosphere.
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Triton (moon of Neptune)  Astronoo  Triton is the seventh in distance and the largest moon of Neptune. It is named after the sea god, son of Poseidon in Greek mythology. ... The moons that have a retrograde orbit, can not have been formed from the same cloud of ... and active, which has a thin atmospheric layer and ground dotted with volcanoes strangely.
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Titan (moon) - Wikipedia  Titan (or Saturn VI) is the largest moon of Saturn. It is the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere, and the only object in space other than Earth where clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found ... It is the second-largest moon in the Solar System, after Jupiter's moon Ganymede, and is larger than...
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How many moons? :: NASA Space Place  We on Earth have just one moon, but some planets have dozens of them. Others don't have ... Jupiter also has the biggest moon in our solar system, Ganymede.
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Neptune's Moons - astro-observer.com  Did you know you can use an inexpensive web cam to capture images of planets and ... Triton is the largest moon of the planet Neptune, discovered on October 10, 1846 by ... It is named after the Nereids, sea-nymphs of Greek mythology. ... This is the highest mean eccentricity of any known satellite in the solar system.
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Views of the Solar System  Because of this, for part of its orbit, Pluto is closer to the Sun than is Neptune. ... are the four innermost planets in the solar system, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. ... is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. ... Both Ganymede and Titan are larger than planet Mercury followed by Io, the...
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Galilean moons - Wikipedia  The Galilean moons are the four largest moons of JupiterIo, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. They were discovered by Galileo Galilei around January 1610 and were the first group of objects found to orbit another planet. ..... Callisto, the outermost and least dense of the four, has a density intermediate between ice and rock...
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Jupiter - Moons | Planets - NASA Solar System Exploration  The planet Jupiter's four largest moons are called the Galilean satellites after Italian ... However, the very few small craters on Callisto indicate a small degree of...
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Mars - Moons | Planets - NASA Solar System Exploration  It was given Angelina's maiden name: Stickney. ... Mars' moons are among the smallest in the solar system. Phobos is a bit larger than Deimos, and orbits only 6,000 km (3,700 miles) ... of rock from cosmic rays and solar radiation for nearly two-thirds of every orbit. ... They are among the darker objects in the solar system.
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Moons of Saturn, Uranus, & Neptune  The Outer Planets ... Summary: The moons of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune range in size, though most ... Titan, the largest in this group, has an atmosphere and liquid lakes. ... Unlike most other moons in our solar system, Titan has a very thick ... Titan's surface temperature is slightly warmer than it otherwise would be due to...
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Triton (Moon) Facts - Space Facts  Triton is Neptune's largest moon and is the only large moon in the solar system to orbit in the opposite direction to its planet's rotation, this is known as a...
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Orbit Article 2 -Titan - Worthing Astronomical Society  We will start with Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons; Titan was actually ... Titan is the only natural satellite around any planet that is known to have a dense ... orbital speed is much faster than our Moon giving rise to a full moon every 16 days.
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Titan - Overview | Planets - NASA Solar System Exploration  Saturn's largest moon Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system, second ... Titan is bigger than Earth's moon, and even larger than the planet Mercury. ... Because Titan is less massive than Earth, its gravity doesn't hold onto its ... of smog - a thick, orange-colored haze that obscures the moon's surface from view.
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Space Today Online - Moons of the Solar System  Several moons are larger than the planet Pluto and two moons are larger ... By comparison, Earth has one moon and Mars has two. ... Hubble Space Telescope suggest there may be even more moons around ... The interplanetary probe Voyager 2 in 1989 found six previously-unknown ... Nereid is 210 miles in diameter.
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Moons of Neptune - Wikipedia  Neptune has 14 known moons, which are named for minor water deities in Greek mythology. By far the largest of them is Triton, discovered by William Lassell on October ... Voyager 2 rediscovered Larissa and discovered five inner moons: Naiad, Thalassa, ... Its largest crater, Pharos, is more than 150 km in diameter.
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Triton (moon) - Wikipedia  Triton is the largest natural satellite of the planet Neptune. It was discovered on October 10, 1846, by English astronomer William Lassell. It is the only large moon in the Solar System with a retrograde orbit, an orbit ... Triton is named after the Greek sea god Triton (), the son of Poseidon (the Greek god comparable to...