{"id":36738,"date":"2011-07-03T15:43:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T15:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/saturn%e2%80%99s-biggest-kids-play-peek-a-boo-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-07-03T15:43:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T15:43:45","slug":"saturn%e2%80%99s-biggest-kids-play-peek-a-boo-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/saturn%e2%80%99s-biggest-kids-play-peek-a-boo-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Saturn\u2019s biggest kids play peek-a-boo | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent all day yesterday writing a 2000-word article for a print venue to be named later, and the weather outside is sunny and delightful and begging to be biked in, so I am disinclined to write something deep and philosophical today. So instead here is just a simply way-cool picture from Cassini taken in 2009<\/a>, showing the Saturnian moon Rhea peeking out from behind the much larger Titan:<\/p>

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[UPDATE: I messed up here. In the original post I misread Titan's radius when I looked it up, and was comparing it to Rhea's diameter. This changes my numbers enough that I have simply corrected everything below; otherwise it would be too confusing to read. Thanks to the commenters for pointing this out!]<\/em><\/p>

Rhea is a little over 1500 km (900 miles) across, and Titan 5150 km (3100 miles). However, in this shot, Rhea was almost two and a half times farther away than her big sister, so it looks<\/em> smaller than it really is. Titan has a thick atmosphere, which is pretty obvious in the picture, while Rhea is basically a ginormous iceball. <\/p>

Still, hmmm. Titan and ...<\/p>

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