Month: May 2020

Enceladus

It’s fair to say that although all of Saturn’s moons have their own interesting features, most of them are fairly similar, being inactive balls of rock and ice. There are two glaring exceptions. Titan, with its thick atmosphere and active chemistry, with the other being Enceladus. Enceladus is a small moon, only 505 km in …

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Tethys

Tethys is Saturn’s fifth largest moon with a diameter of 1,066 km. It is similar to the larger moons of Dione and Rhea but is not as heavily cratered. This is likely due to the fact the moon is relatively close to Saturn, at a distance of 294,660 km which means that Saturn’s tidal influence …

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