There are at least 34 moons orbiting Saturn and we always seem to be discovering more. Titan is the biggest moon and the only one with an atmosphere--which is thick with nitrogen. It's 5,150 kilometers in diameter and bigger than the planet Mercury, which is 4,878 km in diameter. Saturn's moons are usually named after characters in Greek and Roman mythology.

Although the mostly hydrogen and helium gases in Saturn's atmosphere aren't poisonous to humans, they don't provide the oxygen we need to breathe. Titan is the only one of Saturn's moons that has an atmosphere. It consists mainly of nitrogen (like Earth's), however, it also doesn't have enough oxygen for humans to breathe.

Yes, the Moon. Apart from that, there are now a few natural objects known to be in close dynamical relationships with the Earth. Asteroid 2002 AA29 is one of them. We are also currently (23 Jan 2004) working on publishing results on 3 more asteroids. Look for more info here soon.

Mars actually has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, although neither is nearly the size of Earth's moon. Both are irregularly shaped, somewhat like potatoes. Phobos is 27 km (17 miles) long, while Deimos is 15 km (9 miles) long; both moons keep their long axes pointed toward Mars. Phobos is about 5984 km (3717 miles) from Mars and orbits the planet once every 7 hours and 39 minutes; Deimos is about 20,070 km (12,471 miles) from Mars and orbits Mars once every 1 day, 6 hours, and 18 minutes.

sharable link ] Unless something has changed that I am unaware of (Peers over at the lore guys) Telon has one moon in the sky. When we had internal discussions about this ages ago - having more than a single moon "felt" to sci-fi in general and having two or three moons sounded too much like two fairly popular fantasy settings.

All the giant planets have rings, but most are thin and faint. Saturn's are spectacular - broad, bright, multicoloured and made up of thousands of ringlets like the grooves on an old vinyl record. They consist of loose, icy debris, ranging from microscopic dust, to boulders bigger than a house. So where did all this rubble come from? Astronomers have several theories.

Other planets, like Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus have rings also, but Saturn's rings are more breathtaking. It's believed that Saturn's rings were formed when small moons were broken apart by collisions with meteoroids, comets, small asteroids, or other small moons that orbit around Saturn. Over time the gravitational pull of larger moons and of Saturn's equatorial bulge flattened the pieces into the thin disk we now see.

Saturn's rings are an optical illusion on a cosmic scale. Far from solid, they're actually a blizzard of water-ice particles mixed with dust and rock fragments. Most are from around 1 cm to 5 meters, but they range from smoke-size to as big as a house. A few may reach kilometer-size. Each "particle" orbits Saturn independently, a moon unto itself.

Saturn is about 75% hydrogen and 25% helium with traces of water, methane and ammonia. Saturn's interior consists of a rocky core, a liquid metallic hydrogen layer and a molecular hydrogen layer. Traces of various ices are also present. Saturn is the least dense of the planets and would float if you could find an ocean large enough to put it in.

It depends on whether you're talking about volume or mass. Saturn has about 84% the diameter of Jupiter, but only about 30% as much mass. Such a large volume with so little mass makes Saturn the least dense of all the planets, and the only one that would float if it were possible to place it into a tub of water.

The Saturn has both a 2x CD-ROM drive and high speed cartridge port. However, every official game released for the Saturn was on CD (except for King of Fighters 95 which included a CD and cartridge; both had to be inserted to play). The cartridge port was used for other other accessories and enhancements.

I just started collecting outhouses about six months ago, and my collection is pretty slim. It all started with two sets of pictures I thought were cute at Wal-Mart. Then I received for Christmas 6 small ceramic figures. I also have a calendar, "Ma and Pa" outhouse salt and pepper shakers, two small pictures, a ceramic man in a night dress and cap with a lantern running to a outhouse. One unique thing I have received is an outhouse on top of a set of coasters.

Shepherd moons are small moons that appear to be responsible for defining the boundaries of some -- and maybe most -- of Saturn's rings. Their gravitational fields keep the ring particles from straying, much like a shepherd keeps sheep from wandering away from the flock. One startling example is the F-ring, which is tended by two tiny moons, Prometheus and Pandora. They seem to be responsible not only for maintaining the slender ring, but for its apparent braids and kinks.

Shepherding moons are satellites that orbit along side a ring. Due to gravitational effects from the shepherding moon, the edges of the rings are kept sharp and distinct. If the shepherding moon was not present, then the ring material would have a tendency to spread out. If two satellites are orbiting on both sides of the ring, then ring will be constrained on both sides into a narrow band.

Because most of its raw material was gas. Hydrogen and helium are the most abundant substances in the solar system. Earth is not a gas giant because these low weight elements are difficult to hang on to. Our young Sun would have heated them up, making it impossible for Earth's gravity to retain them. Out in the cold, where Saturn formed, there was no problem in keeping a thick blanket of gas. But exactly how Saturn and the other giant planets formed is unknown.

The Sega Saturn was a 32-bit console produced by Sega. It was the successor system to the Sega MegaDrive (Genesis).

The Saturn was released on November 22nd 1994 in Japan, May 11th 1995 in North America, and July 8th 1995 in Europe. The price at launch was $400.

This is a simple one. If you have an S or L Series, you can't. No one has ever made them, and probably never will since the S-Series is discontinued. Someone will probably make them for the ION and VUE, but no one we know to date has.

The Hubble telescope has captured snapshots of Saturn with its rings nearly edge-on to our view. Read more about it. Saturn's rings are incredibly thin, with a thickness of only about 30 feet (10 meters). The rings are made of dusty ice, in the form of boulder-sized and smaller chunks that gently collide with each other as they orbit around Saturn. Saturn's gravitational field constantly disrupts these ice chunks, keeping them spread out and preventing them from combining to form a moon.

Ring models haven't yet been assembled; however, the rings of Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune are extremely dim and most likely invisible to the naked eye except at just the right geometry.

Saturn is easily seen with the naked eye, so people must have viewed it since prehistoric times. Galileo was first to see its rings, but his telescope wasn't powerful enough to show them clearly, and he initially thought he was observing a triple planet. Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens was first to identify a ring around Saturn.

It takes Saturn 29.5 years to complete one revolution around the Sun. As it circles the Sun, the angle of the Saturn's rings relative to the Sun varies by 27.3 degrees. Twice during the 29.5 years, the rings are edge-on to the Sun. Since, as seen from Saturn, the Earth appears not more then 6 degrees from the Sun, it too crosses the ring plane at around the same time.

Saturn's natural colors are muted yellows and browns with some whites and reds. Sometimes you will also see pictures that have been "color-enhanced". This method is used when the images have been taken in a wavelength of light humans can't see (like UVIS takes Ultraviolet data). We assign colors to the different the wavelengths so that we can see a picture that's understandable to us.

The technical term for this is the "lunula." The light color of the lunula, also known as the "half moon," is caused by the reflection of light where the matrix (also known as the mother of the nail, where nail growth begins) and the connective tissue of the nail bed join.