How to Use Saturnian in a Sentence

Saturnian

adjective
  • Astrophysicists determined that at least half the volume of the Saturnian moon Mimas consists of an ocean beneath its icy crust.
    — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 2024-02-26
  • This ocean likely resulted when Mimas's shell melted due to interactions with other Saturnian moons.
    — Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 25 Nov. 2025
  • This sort of scenario could explain Saturn’s young, ice-rich rings, as well as the bizarre properties of Enceladus, without messing up the properties of the other Saturnian moons.
    — Big Think, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The observations Webb beamed back indicate that only about 30 percent of that water stays in the torus, while 70 percent is dispersed throughout the rest of the Saturnian system.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 2023-06-13
  • This Saturnian archetype is reflected in Richard Sachs' relationship and conversations with his daughter Andrea.
    — Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 2024-06-30
  • Perhaps Mimas and several other Saturnian satellites are practically infants, freshly forged from the broken shards of older moons that slammed into one another, as recent research has suggested.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 2024-02-07
  • Ever since the two Voyager probes took a close look at Saturn in the early 1980s, various spacecraft have tried measuring the spin of its radio lighthouse to determine the length of a Saturnian day.
    — Robin Andrews, Wired, 2022-02-22
  • Additional properties of the Saturnian system that were previously chalked up to coincidence, such as the gap between Rhea and Titan as well as the gap between Hyperion and Iapetus, could be explained by the presence of this one-time moon as well.
    — Big Think, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Then in 2008, the Cassini mission discovered that another Saturnian moon, Enceladus, had cracks on its surface that were spraying water into space, effectively injecting it into Titan's atmosphere.
    — Mark Zastrow, Discover Magazine, 2020-09-17

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