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September offers various celestial events, including Saturn and Neptune's oppositions, Mars's approach to solar conjunction, and favorable viewing of Uranus and Jupiter. Multiple transits of Saturn's ...
This evening Titan stands east of Saturn and Iapetus is far to the west, the latter approaching its greatest western elongation tomorrow. You can find the ringed planet already 15° high in the east at ...
Saturn's moon Iapetus exhibits greatest western elongation, positioned 9.5 arcminutes west of Saturn, presenting its brighter, icy hemisphere towards Earth, reaching a 10th magnitude brightness.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is set to cap off 2004 with an encounter of Saturn’s ying-yang moon Iapetus (eye-APP-eh-tuss) on New Year’s Eve. This is Cassini’s closest pass yet by one of Saturn’s smaller ...
Saturn’s distinctive moon Iapetus (eye-APP-eh-tuss) is cryogenically frozen in the equivalent of its teenage years. The moon has retained the youthful figure and bulging waistline it sported more than ...