--- title: Saturn's moons — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Saturn's moons», a lesson of the space course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Saturn holds the record for moons: more than 270 are known, most of them small lumps, and new ones are still being found. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/) / Saturn's moons # Saturn's moons Lesson 13 of the space course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/space/13-saturns-moons/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/0/) — Saturn holds the record for moons: more than 270 are known, most of them small lumps, and new ones are still being found. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/2/) — Imagine a rainy day at minus 180 degrees: on Titan the rain is natural gas falling as liquid, filling lakes you could sail a boat on. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/3/) — Little Enceladus is like a garden sprinkler made of ice: jets of water burst from cracks at its south pole, from an ocean hidden underneath, and the spray feeds one of Saturn's rings. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/4/) — Other moons are odd too: Mimas looks like the Death Star, Iapetus is half black and half white, Hyperion is a tumbling sponge, and tiny shepherd moons herd the ice of the rings. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/5/) — Saturn has the most known moons of any planet, more than 270, and the count is still rising. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/6/) — Titan is Saturn's biggest moon, larger than the planet Mercury. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/7/) — Titan is the only moon with a thick atmosphere. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/8/) — Titan has rivers, lakes and seas, but they are filled with liquid methane and ethane, not water. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/9/) — In 2005 the European Huygens probe parachuted onto Titan, the most distant landing ever made. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/10/) — NASA's Dragonfly is a nuclear-powered drone helicopter due to launch in 2028 and fly between sites on Titan in the 2030s. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/11/) — Saturn's small moon Enceladus sprays jets of water ice from cracks near its south pole, from a hidden ocean below. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/14/) — Iapetus has one side as dark as coal and the other as bright as snow, and a strange ridge round its equator. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/15/) — Hyperion is a lumpy moon like a sponge, full of deep craters, and it tumbles chaotically, in a messy, unpredictable way, as it orbits. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/16/) — Small moons such as Prometheus and Pandora shepherd the narrow F ring, keeping its ice in a thin, sharp-edged band as sheepdogs keep sheep together. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/17/) — The tiny moons Pan and Daphnis orbit inside gaps in Saturn's main rings. - ← previous: [Saturn and its rings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/12-saturn-and-its-rings/) - next →: [Uranus and Neptune](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/14-uranus-and-neptune/) - ↑ back to [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/)