When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's a hard-knock life for Saturn's moon Epimetheus. The pale-gray moon, which NASA's website ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Cassini spacecraft snapped this high-resolution image of Saturn’s small moon Epimetheus during the spacecraft’s non-targeted flyby on April 7, 2010. The view was obtained at a distance of ...

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 ...

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.