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Prometheus
Size: 86.2 km in mean radius, Orbit Period: 0.613 days, Remarkable Features: A Shepherd moon of the F Ring, Known for creating streamers and braids in the F Ring
Methone
Size: Approximately 3 km in diameter, Orbit Period: 1.01 days, Remarkable Features: Extremely smooth surface, Possible very low density
Titan
Size: 5,149 km in diameter, Orbit Period: 15.945 days, Remarkable Features: Thick nitrogen atmosphere, Liquid hydrocarbon lakes
Phoebe
Size: 213 km in average diameter, Orbit Period: 550.48 days, Remarkable Features: Retrograde orbit, Dark surface composed of carbon compounds
Telesto
Size: 25 km in mean radius, Orbit Period: 1.8878 days, Remarkable Features: Shares orbit with Tethys as a Trojan moon
Mimas
Size: 396 km in diameter, Orbit Period: 0.942 days, Remarkable Features: Herschel Crater, which resembles the Death Star from Star Wars
Iapetus
Size: 1,471 km in diameter, Orbit Period: 79.32 days, Remarkable Features: Two-tone coloration, Massive equatorial ridge
Dione
Size: 1,123 km in diameter, Orbit Period: 2.737 days, Remarkable Features: Has a wispy terrain of ice cliffs, Possible subsurface ocean
Epimetheus
Size: 116.2 km in mean radius, Orbit Period: 0.694 days, Remarkable Features: Co-orbital with Janus, Switches orbits every four years
Enceladus
Size: 504 km in diameter, Orbit Period: 1.37 days, Remarkable Features: Ice geysers, Possible subsurface ocean
Janus
Size: 179 km in mean radius, Orbit Period: 0.694 days, Remarkable Features: Shares orbit with moon Epimetheus, forming a co-orbital configuration
Pallene
Size: Approximately 2.5 km in mean radius, Orbit Period: 1.14 days, Remarkable Features: One of the smallest moons of Saturn, Very faint ring material orbiting along with Pallene
Helene
Size: Approximately 36 km across, Orbit Period: 2.7369 days, Remarkable Features: Shares orbit with Dione as a Trojan moon
Atlas
Size: 30.2 km in diameter, Orbit Period: 0.601 days, Remarkable Features: Saucer-like shape due to its equatorial ridge
Rhea
Size: 1,527 km in diameter, Orbit Period: 4.518 days, Remarkable Features: Possible faint ring system, Second-largest moon of Saturn
Pan
Size: 28.2 km in diameter, Orbit Period: 0.575 days, Remarkable Features: Waltz through the Encke Gap in Saturn's A Ring, Pronounced equatorial bulge
Tethys
Size: 1,062 km in diameter, Orbit Period: 1.888 days, Remarkable Features: Massive canyon Ithaca Chasma, Large impact crater Odysseus
Hyperion
Size: 270 km in diameter, Orbit Period: 21.28 days, Remarkable Features: Chaotic rotation, Sponge-like appearance
Calypso
Size: 21 km in mean radius, Orbit Period: 1.888 days, Remarkable Features: Trojan moon of Tethys, Shares the same orbit at the L5 Lagrange point
Pandora
Size: 81.4 km in mean radius, Orbit Period: 0.629 days, Remarkable Features: F Shepherd moon of the F Ring, Elongated, potato-shaped body
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