What are the months of Saturn?

Saturn, the second largest planet in the solar system and the sixth furthest from the Sun, has sixty confirmed months, only three less than his neighbor, the royal Jupiter. Seven of these months are large enough to be roughly spherical, after reaching hydrostatic balance and would be considered as dwarf planets if they were in orbit around the sun. These months are titanium, tethys, dione, rhea, iapetus, mimas and valuladus.

Five Saturn months were discovered in the first century of the invention of a telescope. Titan was the first to be discovered, the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens in 1655. This discovery was followed by Tethys, Dione, Rhea and Iapetus between 1671 and 1684 by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini. The probe, which arrived in the Saturn system in 2004, was named Cassini in his honor. In 1789 Mimas and Enceladus, the remaining spéroid months, discovered William Hershel.

Since then, 53 Addikol Saturn were discovered inner monthsCombining the use of photographic boards with long exposure, spacecraft and strong modern telescopes. These months have averages of about four kilometers. Saturn also SK

Saturn is circled by numerous rings composed of dust and rocks from nanometers to tens, not if a diameter of hundreds of meters. There are weak agglomerations of ring material that combine and disintegrate in weeks. Some months are explicitly called "ring shepherds", which are used to carve Saturn rings and give them sharp edges through their gravitational influence.

The most famous month of Saturn is Titan, with an average of 5151 km, which makes it the second largest month in the solar system, just a little for Jupiter Ganymede. This month is massive enough to maintain its own atmosphere, a single month in the solar system that has achieved it. Its atmosphere is made of hydrocarbons and is dockOnce denser than our own. In 2004, Cassini Orbiter dropped the Huygens probe into the atmosphere of Titan, where he became the first artificial object to land on the surface of the solar system.

Another of the more interesting Saturn months is the iApetus, sometimes called "Yin-Yang" a month after its bright white side and the black side. This month also has an unusual ridge orbiting the equator, follows it almost accurately, and rises to a height of 10 km, giving the moon the look of walnut.