Its rings make it one of the most beautiful objects in the solar system: Saturn is a giant with style. If a car travelling at 100 km/h could drive around the visible rings once, it would take a whole year!
The beauty of the ringed planet and its orange moon Titan can be clearly seen with a simple terrestrial viewing scope. It is not entirely correct to say that planets, unlike stars, do not shine by themselves: Saturn actually shines a little by itself, emitting more energy than it receives from the Sun.
In 2004, after a year-long journey through space, NASA's Cassini space probe approached the giant with its 30 moons – the first visit since 1981. It was accompanied by the European ESA landing probe Huygens, which landed with a parachute on Titan, the second largest moon in the solar system. Its clouds are so dense that we still do not know whether there are oceans of methane or ethane on its ice-cold surface.
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