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Saturn has three distinct but closely bound observing targets: the planet itself, its rings and then its satellites. Each of these is important to the theme of this book. The planet marks the outer limit of the ancient universe, the outermost planet visible to the naked eye. The rings were one of the first great puzzles of the telescopic age, observed by Galileo and still one of the wonders of the Solar System. The moons of Saturn are significant in a quite different way. It is upon one that we find that familiar curse of the astronomer on Earth, rain. The Saturn system, like that of Jupiter, contains rocky worlds where some of the conditions for life may exist.
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Marett-Crosby, M. (2013). Falling in Love. In: Twenty-Five Astronomical Observations That Changed the World. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6800-4_20
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