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Christiaan Huygens was an early telescope developer & found the moon Titan when he looked at this planet |
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In 2019 the IAU announced the discovery of 20 new moons of this planet, putting it 3 ahead of Jupiter's total |
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In 1672, Cassinidiscovered Rhea, the second-largest moon of this planet, now discover Rheafor yourself via the Cassini spacecraft |
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The rings of this planet are about 175,000 miles wide--more than 7 times the circumference of the Earth |
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This planet is less dense than water--but it's still 95 times the mass of the Earth |
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Jupiter has its Great Red Spot; this planet has a Great White Spot, seen at 30-year intervals |
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When Cassini takes pictures of this planet, stars aren't usually seen, due to the brightness of the rings |
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2015 computer simulations suggest a collision between 2 of this planet's moons may have created its "F" ring |
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Larger than the planet Mercury, Titan is the largest moon of this planet |
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The crepe ring is the transparent C ring in this planet's ring system |
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Like our moon, only one side of Titan, this planet's satellite, always faces the planet's surface |
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A phrase used to remember this planet's main moons is "Met Dr. Thip"; Titan is the second T |
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In 1857 James Clerk Maxwell concluded that its rings were made of small, unconnected particles |
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Titan, a moon of this planet, has a thicker atmosphere than Earth |
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In 1675, Italian astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini discovered a dark gap in this planet's main ring |
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It's the solar system's 2nd largest planet |
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