A concise history of Saturn from Galileo's discovery of of the rings, to the robotic probes of the Space Age. This 12,000 word eBook short read describes how the Cassini-Huygens mission has transformed our knowledge of Saturn, its spectacular ring system, and its many moons. Why are Saturn's rings so much more prominant than these of the other giant planets? Could the rings and moons be no more than 100 million years old - more recent, even, than the era of the dinosaurs on Earth?
Saturn has 274 moons, more than the rest of the Solar System put together. They include smog-shrouded Titan, a moon larger than the planet Mercury, with an atmosphere 50 per cent denser than that of Earth; Enceladus, where life could exist an a subsurface ocean; and enigmatic Iapetus, darkened on one side with a mysterious ridge running along its equator.
