Jupiter's Moons...

What you are seeing here is the shadow of the ring on Saturn itself.

That planet is called Saturn.

Saturn is a planet.

Saturn

But it visited Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

Planet Saturn. Yes, that's good.

Draw Saturn in the sky map?

Draw Saturn?

Saturn

Many moons orbit around Saturn.

The Rings of Saturn

Most of the beautiful pictures we've taken of Saturn, in fact, show Saturn in accompaniment with some of its moons. Here's Saturn with Dione, and then, here's Saturn showing the rings edge on, showing you just how vertically thin they are, with the moon Enceladus.

Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco shows images from the Cassini voyage to Saturn, focusing on its largest moon, Titan, and on frozen Enceladus, which seems to shoot jets of ice.

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Saturn is the second largest planet in the Solar System.

Carolyn Porco Could a Saturn moon harbor life?

Now, the Saturn system is a rich planetary system.

Sega Saturn emulator

Now, two of the 47 moons that Saturn has are standouts.

It looks like Saturn because, of course, it is.

Saturn is accompanied by a very large and diverse collection of moons.

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If checked, Saturn will be drawn on the map.

So this is a Yellowstone, you know, of Saturn.

There stand some interesting places a little further out the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.

The Sun is behind Saturn, so we see what we call forward scattering, so it highlights all the rings. And I'm going to zoom.

This was a project to build a 4,000 ton nuclear bomb propelled spaceship and go to Saturn and Jupiter.

There s my very own Saturn V.

So, let me show you a little bit on what that Saturnian system looks like.

First, I'm going to fly you over the rings.

And here is Saturn, with its ring!

If you go to the safari parks on Saturn or Jupiter, you will be disappointed.

And those are Titan and Enceladus. Titan is Saturn's largest moon, and, until Cassini had arrived there, was the largest single expanse of unexplored terrain that we had remaining in our solar system.

During the flight to Saturn the space vehicle will undergo gravity assists by Venus, Earth and Jupiter.

This is actually taken from the satellite that we have in orbit around Saturn, the Cassini.

This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,

A third satellite, in addition to the existing Turkish Communication Satellite System (TURKSAT), is under consideration by Turk Telecom.

Carolyn Porco flies us to Saturn

And so it turns out that methane is to Titan what water is to the Earth.

Try to imagine what the surface of Titan might look like.

It is a total eclipse of the Sun, seen from the other side of Saturn.

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