Discover what Saturn’s Moon Epimetheus is. Learn who discovered it, size, icy composition, co-orbital dance with Janus & key facts about this fascinating celestial body. Epimetheus helps scientists ...

Saturn has a great many more moons than our planet – a whopping 62. A single moon, Titan, accounts for an overwhelming 96% of all the material orbit the planet, with a group of six other smaller moons ...

It's a hard-knock life for Saturn's moon Epimetheus. The pale-gray moon, which NASA's website describes as "potato-shaped," is covered in craters from eons of merciless collisions with space debris.

An image of Saturn's small moon, Epimetheus, was captured by the Cassini spacecraft in the closest view ever taken of the pockmarked body. An image of Saturn's small moon, Epimetheus ...

Saturn has a great many more moons than our planet – a whopping 62. A single moon, Titan, accounts for an overwhelming 96% of all the material orbit the planet, with a group of six other smaller moons ...

1 / 6 | Visual: The moon is named for a titan in Greek mythology who is the brother of Y. Together, Epimetheus and Y stand for Hindsight and Foresight. Name Y, the image depicts him performing a ...

With this false-color view, Cassini presents the closest look yet at Saturn’s small moon Epimetheus (epp-ee-MEE-thee-uss). The color of Epimetheus in this view appears to vary in a non-uniform way ...

Cassini’s camera was pointing toward Epimetheus and the image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters. This image has not been validated or calibrated. A validated/calibrated image will be archived ...

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Cassini continues making loop-de-loops around Saturn, returning tens of thousands of way cool pictures. Like this one: From 1.3 million kilometers (800,000 miles) away – 3 times as far as the Moon is ...

Life is hard for a little moon. Epimetheus, seen here with Saturn in the background, is lumpy and misshapen, thanks in part to its size and formation process. Epimetheus did not form with all of those ...

An image of Saturn's small moon, Epimetheus (epp-ee-MEE-thee-uss), was captured by the Cassini spacecraft in the closest view ever taken of the pockmarked body. Image: The color of Epimetheus in this ...