Sentences with phrase «moon rhea»

On March 6, 2008, the Cassini mission reported evidence of orbital debris around Saturn's second largest moon Rhea (which is around 950 miles or 1,530 kilometer wide).

The team also found that Saturn moon Rhea is moving away 10 times faster than the other moons, which is the first evidence that a planet's dissipation factor can vary with its distance in relation to the moon.

Despite an initial inference, planetary scientists say there are no rings around Saturn's moon Rhea

We also uncovered Saturn's ring atmosphere and ionosphere, and found weak atmospheres at the moons Rhea and Dione.

Not exact matches

Q8 Rhea is the second largest of Saturn's many moons.

In 1671 he discovered Saturn's moon Iapetus and found another, Rhea, the next year.

A series of parallel lines on Saturn's moons Dione and Rhea have scientists scratching their heads.

Now the Cassini spacecraft appears to have found a ring system around Saturn's second - largest moon, Rhea.

Simulations indicate that, given Rhea's size and distant orbit around Saturn, this moon could potentially hang on to a ring for millions of years or more before the planet's pull overcomes Rhea's hold.

By the end of the year, Cassini will have provided similar close - ups of six other Saturnian moons — Titan, Enceladus, Iapetus, Tethys, Dione, and Rhea.

«It was good to finally get a decent look at Tirawa, Rhea's largest crater, and its «evil twin» directly to the northeast,» says outer - moon expert William McKinnon of Washington University in St. Louis, US.

The 450 - mile - wide Rhea, Saturn's second - largest moon, hovers just below the rings, which are so astonishingly thin that researchers wonder how they hold together.

The smaller moon Mimas (396 kilometers, or 246 miles across) can be seen beyond Rhea also on the right side of the image.

It was named for Giovanni Cassini, a 17th - century astronomer who was the first to observe four of Saturn's moons — Iapetus (1671), Rhea (1672), Tethys (1684) and Dione (1684).

Saturn's largest and second largest moons, Titan and Rhea, appear to be stacked on top of each other in this true - color scene from NASA's Cassini spacecraft released on Dec. 23, 2013.

Janus (179 km across) is on the far left, Pandora (81 km across) orbits between the A ring and the thin F ring, Enceladus (504 km across) is centre, Rhea (1,528 km), is bisected by the right edge of the image and the smaller moon Mimas (396 km) is seen beyond Rhea also on the right side of the image.

Some of the snow also settles onto four nearby moons: Mimas, Tethys, Dione and Rhea.

See an older contrast image of Saturn with three moons: Tethys and shadow, Dione, and Rhea.

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Set in an alternate future where an ongoing cold war ensues between two superpowers: the Atlantic Union and the People's Republic of Volgravia, you play Agent Epsilon, an astronaut from the Atlantic Union dispatched to an abandoned base on Rhea, one of Saturn's moons.