The moons of Saturn (annotated)

This composite image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on 6 June 2018, shows the ringed planet Saturn with six of its 62 known moons.

With a diameter of 1123 kilometres, Dione is the fourth-largest of Saturn’s moons and the largest of the siblings in this family portrait. The smallest satellite in this picture is the irregularly shaped Epimetheus, with a size of 143 x 108 x 98 kilometres.

The image is a composite because the moons move during the Saturn exposures, and individual frames must be realigned to make a colour portrait.

Credit:

NASA, ESA, A. Simon (GSFC) and the OPAL Team, and J. DePasquale (STScI)

About the Image

Id:heic1814e
Type:Collage
Release date:26 July 2018, 16:00
Related releases:heic1814
Size:2426 x 1358 px

About the Object

Name:Saturn
Type:Solar System : Planet
Category:Solar System

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