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The shredded moon formed Saturn’s rings, and its loss let Saturn’s tilt angle relax a bit to its present-day value of about 27 degrees (3). A doomed moon.
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While the gas giant would have swallowed much of the moon’s mass and material, a small percentage of it most likely remained, acting as the origin of Saturn’s rings. Tech. Entertainment. Science.
A new photo taken by a spacecraft near Saturn shows a small moon making waves in the planet's rings. The photo, captured by the Cassini spacecraft on Jan. 16, reveals the moon Daphnis as it makes ...
Saturn is perhaps the best-known example, swathed by eight main rings made of thousands of smaller ringlets, but the other three outer planets also possess rings, the Voyager space missions revealed.
For the first time in 15 years, you can see a game of shadows across Saturn. You won't see it again until 2040.
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, casts its shadow across the gas giant in a series of rare shadow transits. This unique ...