Atlas

Moon· orbits Saturn

Atlas is a moon orbiting Saturn.

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Key facts

Mass

5.54 × 10¹⁵ kg

0.0000000755 Moon masses

Radius

15.1 km

1% of our Moon's radius

Surface gravity

0.00162 m/s²

0% of Earth's

Orbit around Saturn

14.6 hours

0.61 Earth days

Science

Physical

Mass: 5.54 × 10¹⁵ kg · 0.0000000755 Moon masses
Radius: 15.1 km · 1% of our Moon's radius
Density: 384 kg/m³ · 0.38× water
Surface gravity: 0.00162 m/s² · 0% of Earth's
Escape velocity: 7 m/s · 0% of Earth's

Orbit around Saturn

Distance from Saturn: 4,461,567 km
Orbital period: 14.58 hours
Eccentricity: 0.004777
Inclination: 6.46 °

Radiation & temperature

Insolation: 0.0112 S⊕ · 1% of the sunlight Earth receives

Discovery & history

By: Voyager Science Team

Atlas was discovered in 1980 by Voyager Science Team. Saturn's moons are named after giants and deities of world mythology — its distant irregular moons after Norse, Inuit and Gallic figures. Beyond its discovery and naming, little more about it has been individually recorded.

Images

Atlas, a smooth ring-shepherd moon, imaged by Cassini — NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute (public domain) · Wikimedia Commons

Navigating the Blackness — NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute · NASA Image Library

Atlas Ring Shadow Premiere — NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute · NASA Image Library

Emerging from Darkness — NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute · NASA Image Library

Moon Quartet — NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute · NASA Image Library

Speck Between Rings — NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute · NASA Image Library

Sextet of Moons — NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute · NASA Image Library

Toward the Shadow — NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute · NASA Image Library

Images from open archives · credit shown per image