who discovered water on the satellite of saturn called enceladus?
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Someone on Carolyn Porco's team in the Space Science Institute in Boulder Colorado. They are the team responsible for analysing images that come back from the Cassini probe, which is currently orbiting Saturn and its moons. Carolyn Porco is the main mission scientist, is an expert on Saturn and has been involved in this research for decades. The discovery is still tentative, though. They  \n\nWilliam Herschel discovered Enceladus, not evidence of water - that was only announced a few weeks ago on March 6.
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Saturn: The planet Saturn was named after the Roman god of agriculture and the harvest. Saturn is the second largest planet in our solar system (Jupiter is the largest). The planet Saturn is less dense than water - it will float on water. \nFacts:\n\nDiameter: 120,536 km, 9.4 Earth diameters \n\nAverage Distance from Sun: 1.427 billion km, 9.53 AU (astronomical units) \n\nLength of Day: 10 hours 40 minutes \n\nLength of Year: 29.46 Earth Years \n\nNumber of natural satellites: 30 \n\nPlanetary ring system: Yes \n\nAverage temperature: ~134 K (-139 C) Atmospheric composition: Mostly hydrogen and helium. \n\nEccentricity of orbit 0.053\n\nInclination of equator to orbit 26.73°\n\nInclination of orbit to ecliptic 2.48 ° \nGalileo was the first to see Saturn in 1610 through a telescope. 1655- Christian Huygens (Dutch) used a better telescope and suggested that it was surrounded by a thin-flattened ring. Edge on almost impossible to see. Later on discovered that the rings were really system of rings. 1675 Domenico Cassini discovered a dark division in the rings. The Cassini division is a gap about 4500 km wide that separates the outer A ring from the brighter B ring. 1838- Johann Franz Encke discovered a 270 km wide division in the outer A ring\n\nA, B, & C rings are not uniform but consist of hundred upon hundred of closely space bands or ringlets. This is a picture of the F-ring about 100 km wide. Narrowness is due to the gravitational forces exerted by 2 small satellites\n \n\nRings\n\n \n\nThe storm is the white arrowhead shape in the middle of Saturn - pointing to the right. The diameter of this storm is about the diameter of the Earth. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe beautiful blue in the photograph is caused by the multiple pictures that have been combined. Blue is not the natural color of Saturn. White in the clouds are white ammonia ice crystals.\nSaturn’s Moons\n1 planet sized satellites\n6 moderate sized satellites\n? tiny satellites\n\nTitan\nA dark cloud band is visible near Titan's north pole, the equator has a wide band of clouds as well. Titan is larger than the planets Mercury and Pluto. The thick haze/atmosphere of Titan. Picture was taken by Voyager 1 in 1980. Titan is the only moon in our solar system with an atmosphere. Titan's atmosphere might even be thicker than the atmosphere of Earth. It consists mainly of nitrogen. \n \n\nTethys: The area on the right hand side of this photo is heavily cratered and brighter/whiter than the rest of Tethys as seen on the left hand side. Tethys has much more craters at the upper half of this picture than at the lower half. The craters at the bottom half were flooded with volcanic lava, making that half smoother. The smallest object you can see on this photograph is about 5 kilometers across.\n\n Tethys\n\n\nRhea: Icy crust. 1600 km in diameter. Along with Iapetus are the largest and most distant from Saturn.\n\n Rhea\n\nMimas: Photograph by Voyager 1 in 1980. Covered with impact craters of all sizes. The largest impact crater on this picture is more than 100 kilometers in diameter. It has a high central peak. \n\n\n Mima\n\nPhoebas: The bright spot in the picture on the left is a mountain. The two bright spots in the photograph on the right are mountain ridges. \n\n\n\n\nJupiter\n\n\nStats\n\nDistance from Sun- 5.203 AU (4.95-5.45AU)\n\nEccentricity of orbit 0.048\n\nOrbital period- 11.86 years\n\nRotational period- equatorial 9 hours 50 min - internal 9 hours 55 min\n\nInclination of equator to orbit 3.12°\n\nInclination of orbit to ecliptic 1.30 °\n\nDiameter 142,984 Km = 11.209 Earth diameters\n\nMass- 1.899 x 1027 = 317.8 Earths\n\nSurface gravity- 2.36\n\nAlbedo- 0.44\n\nAverage temperature -180 °C= -162 °F=165 k\n\nComposition: Largest object in the solar system. Made mostly of lightweight gases. \n\nOpposition: Where and when the best times to see a superior planet. When the planet is on the same side of the sun as Earth. Jupiter is 3x brighter than the brightest st
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Saturn was discovered in 1610 by the astronomer Galileo Galilei. \nYes, others had seen Saturn before him--but they didn't exactly take into account what it was. He was the first to realize that it was a planet and also other facts concerning the planet.
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Are you talking about the god Apollo, or the space mission that put man on the moon?
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Saturn's moon Enceladus and Pluto's moon Charon.
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Cassini itself did not land. However, it was carrying the probe Huygens, which landed on Titan.
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venus?\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4&dsid=2222&dekey=Venus+%28planet%29&gwp=8&curtab=2222_1
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http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/SEMV75HHZTD_0.html\n\nhttp://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/saturn/saturn.html&edu=elem\n\nfun facts\nhttp://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/kids/fun-facts-saturn.cfm
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Titan. She has rivers of liquid methane..
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Galileo's sketches of the Moon.\n\nHere are Galileo's drawings of the jagged surface of the moon.  His telescopic observations convinced him that the moon could not be a perfect, crystalline sphere.  (In the Greek scientific tradition, everything from the moon on out is made of a special, fifth element, whose natural motion is in a circle.  Everything below the moon's orbit is made of the four elements earth, fire, air, and water. \n\nhttp://unr.edu/homepage/nickles/wthonors/galileo.htm
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snow is composed of water and ice. \n\nthe planet saturn does not have water. its atmosphere is made of hydrogen and helium gases, ammonia, and small amounts of other gases. its core is surrounded by a shell of solid hydrogen, which is in turn surrounded by a shell of liquid hydrogen. \n\nwhile saturn does not have snow, one of its moons, titan, does. titan, with its temperature just 4 degrees centigrade above the "triple-point" temp of methane, produces methane snow and solid methane ice, methane liquid and methane vapor gas.
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Although everyone is saying it, mine has always been saturn. I remember when I first saw saturn through my 5 inch telescope when i was as kid. It was incredible. It was only very small, but i could see the rings and the shadows that they were casting on the planet. It was so beautiful because i was looking at in 3D. It looked so much better that way than even the best photos taken by the voyagers Cassini or the Hubble.
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I thought I discovered a new planet once. It was mostly water and I could see the mountains and rivers and everything. It was just sitting on a desk.\n\nI later learned that this is called a "globe."
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Ben Franklin discovered electricity when he was visiting Mars. They have electrical storms something fierce up there, if memory serves me correctly.
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Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest: \n\nSaturn has 34 named satellites: \n\nOf those moons for which rotation rates are known, all but Phoebe and Hyperion rotate synchronously. \n\nThe three pairs Mimas-Tethys, Enceladus-Dione and Titan-Hyperion interact gravitationally in such a way as to maintain stable relationships between their orbits: the period of Mimas' orbit is exactly half that of Tethys, they are thus said to be in a 1:2 resonance; Enceladus-Dione are also 1:2; Titan-Hyperion are in a 3:4 resonance.
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On April 12, 1961 Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is the first person to orbit Earth. His flight in Vostok 1 lasts less than 2 hr.
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Rain is filled with pullotion. the purest natrual water can be found in the ice and the noth and south poles..