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Everybody recognizes Saturn's rings, but that isn't all that orbits the planet. There are shepherd moons, a moon with cold volcanoes erupting, a planet-sized moon, and more. It took nearly two hundred years for the first seven known moons to get names.

Saturn's Moons – Facts for Kids

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From the Cassini-Huygens team a nice infographic showing the main moons and ring structures of Saturn.

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Here's a picture just released from Cassini - it shows Rhea and tiny Epimetheus. They're about 400,000 km apart, even though they look quite close in this image.


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