Saturn's+Satellites

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 * Saturn consists has a total of 62 moons, only 52 have names. This is why we are only going to provide information on several of saturns MAJOR moons. **
 * Satellite 1: Titan **
 * ** External:90% Nitrogen(Earth is 80%), and 10% other complex molecules such as methane. **
 * ** Internal: water ice of different [|__phases__] with mountains of ice exposed at its suraface.Along with silicates and iron, water, ammonia, and methane instead of molten rock. **
 * ** Size: slightly larger than 5150 km **
 * ** thick atmosphere with a surface air pressure about 1.5 times thicker than the Earth's, or 1.881X water **
 * ** 15.9 days to orbit Saturn **
 * ** liquid lakes, clouds, an atmosphere, mountains, and cryovolcanoes. **
 * ** cryovolcanoes- A cryovolcano is a volcano that exists in extremely icy conditions and erupt with plumes of material such as water, ammonia, and methane instead of molten rock. **
 * ** 95 Kelvin; 289°F below zero **
 * ** not suitable, too cold and the atmosphere is so thick with such low gravity that if humans attached man-made wings to their arms, they could fly through it. **
 * ** Scientists believe that Titan's environment may be similar to that of the Earth's before oxygen began appearing in the atmosphere **
 * ** there have been two probe that have landed on Titan; Cassini & Huygens. These were built by the European Space Agency, hitched a ride on Cassini **
 * ** Titan is the second largest moon in the solar system [[image:https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/K21so0sHmxoG6pl7rtrKSBuVwNHKSK5RK9Rfdg8Za9Lwk8KGC39NaQXZwXyJbngIEQfoXNRB34Dtd457pwnOTGetBTr77hP_EqtoDi_OJCFDKMIerBzXisBx width="272" height="256" align="left"]][[image:https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/jZ9h6PbjjtSjGfvDMd6ZFft-gZoKpnXBaHTJszsjsgA02ImCRVuP-c_sJkpAACJAHylfIZq3TB6kyfRCQMt1Fj32sBzFS79BU_dynkWVPUKtNnVxvt4hPJW6 width="280" height="303" align="right"]]**
 * Rhea- staurns second largest satellite **
 * ** composition: 25% rock and 75% water ice. NASA's Cassini spacecraft indicated the Rhea has an almost homogeneous interior (meaning built of the same material throughout)It Is cold and consists of an icy body.Rhea is heavily cratered but with wispy white streaks across the [|__surface__] **
 * ** 949 miles(1,528 km) across **
 * ** Density:1.233 times that of liquid water **
 * ** 4.52 days **
 * ** Consists of craters, large to small.The surface features of Rhea can be split up into two different geological areas based on the density of the craters. The first area contains craters that are larger than 25 miles (40 km) in diameter. The largest of these craters is Izanagi. It has a diameter of 140 miles (225 km). Craters in the second area are smaller than 25 miles in diameter. **
 * ** fracture cliffs are located, which indicate that at one point, there was tectonic activity **
 * ** -174 degrees Celsius (-281 degrees Fahrenheit) in sunlit areas and ranging down to -220 degrees Celsius (-364 degrees Fahrenheit) in shaded areas **
 * ** Not possible; there is no atmosphere. **
 * ** Rhea [REE-a] is the fourteenth of Saturn's known moons and is the second largest. It is the largest airless moon in the Saturnian system. Rhea was named after the sister and wife of Chronus in Greek mythology. **

** Rhea, the Wisps and Rings **
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 * ** NASA's Cassini and Voyager spacecrafts discovered wispy formations that were once caused by tectonic activity. The scientists noticed this when looking at the moon from afar, rather than up close. showed that the wispy areas are subsidence fractures that make canyons (some of them several hundred meters high). The walls of those canyons are bright because darker material falls off them, exposing fresh bright water ice.Rhea also may have three small rings around itself. This would be the first discovery of rings around a moon instead of a planet. These faint rings contain dust particles and debris. **





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 * Third largest moon: Lapetus **
 * ** Internal: 80% ice and 20% rocky material and has no atmosphere. very little rocky material and is composed mainly of water ice. **
 * ** external: (external and internal) **
 * ** diameter: 1,471 kilometers (914 miles) circumfrence:2872 **
 * ** Density: 1.09 g/cm³ **
 * ** Orbit:79 days **
 * ** Surface features:has a light hemisphere called Roncevaux Terraand, and a dark hemisphere called Cassini Regio, which gives it almost a ying-yang look.flattened poles and a bulge in the middle, with the equatorial ridgeline like a half belt around the middle **
 * ** "equatorial ridge," a chain of 10-kilometer (6-mile) high mountains girdling the moon's equator. **
 * ** Temperatures near the equator vary between about 128 Kelvin (minus 229 degrees Fahrenheit) in the darkest regions and about 113 Kelvin (minus 256 degrees Fahrenheit) in the brightest regions. **
 * ** Additional information: Discovery:Giovanni Cassini discovered Iapetus on 25 October 1671. However, Iapetus appeared only as a bright, dark dot to astronomers until the Voyager I and Voyager II encounters in 1980 and 1981.How Iapetus Got its Name:John Herschel suggested that the moons of Saturn be associated with the mythical brothers and sisters of Kronus. (Kronus is the equivalent of the Roman god Saturn in Greek mythology.)T he light areas are likely composed of ice. The darker areas represent a thin coating of an unknown material. Iapetus is said to greatly resemble the Death Star from "Star Wars" films! **