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Atlas and moon
simple: Atlas ( moon )
In contexts where a Titan and a Titaness are assigned each of the seven planetary powers, Atlas is paired with Phoebe and governs the moon.
The unmanned Atlas V rocket launched the two space probes towards the moon, where they will provide a 3-D map and search for water in conjunction with the Hubble Space Telescope.
Equatorial ridges are a feature of at least three of Saturn's moons: the large moon Iapetus and the tiny moons Atlas and Pan.

Atlas and ),
* Atlas ( mythology ), a Titan who bore the spheres of the heavens ; inspiring the widely used image of a man carrying a celestial sphere on his back or shoulders ( also known as Atlas Telamon or " enduring Atlas ")
* Atlas ( crater ), a prominent impact crater on the Moon
* Atlas ( star ), a triple star system in the Pleiades cluster
* Atlas ( anatomy ), the topmost cervical vertebra of the spine
* Atlas Bear ( Ursus arctos crowtheri ), an extinct subspecies of the Brown Bear
* Atlas beetle ( Chalcosoma atlas ), a rhinoceros beetle species
* Atlas Flycatcher ( Ficedula speculigera ), a songbird species sometimes included in the Eurasian Pied Flycatcher
* Atlas Moth ( Attacus atlas ), a large saturniid moth species
* Atlas Turtle ( Colossochelys atlas ), a prehistoric giant tortoise, formerly in the genus Testudo
* Atlas ( topology ), a collection of local coordinate charts in mathematics
* Atlas Computer ( Manchester ) ( 1962 – 1971 ), an early computer built at the University of Manchester
** Titan ( computer ), also known as the Atlas 2, its successor
* The Atlas ( video game ), a Japan-exclusive strategy video game
* Atlas ( album ), an album by Mexican electro-pop band Kinky
* Atlas ( band ), a rock band from Christchurch, New Zealand
* Atlas ( film ), a 1961 movie by Roger Corman
* Atlas Games ( company ), a publisher of role-playing and card games
* The Atlas ( novel ), by American author William T. Vollmann
* Atlas ( magazine ), Turkish monthly magazine on geography, environment, history and culture
* Atlas Comics ( 1950s ), the company that evolved into Marvel Comics
* Atlas ( comics series ), a comic book series by Dylan Horrocks
* Atlas ( DC Comics ), a fictional character published by DC Comics

Atlas and Saturn
Atlas is an inner satellite of Saturn.
It was used in the very first rocket applications like the V2 missile ( under the name A-Stoff and Sauerstoff ) and Redstone, R-7 Semyorka, Atlas boosters, and the ascent stages of the Apollo Saturn rockets.
The sound of the launch was a disappointment for some witnesses, being described as like an Atlas rocket launch, when observers stood 1. 5 miles ( 2. 4 km ) away instead of three miles ( 5 km ) for a Saturn launch.
1965 graph showing cumulative history and projection of Saturn launches by month ( along with Atlas and Titan )
* liquid oxygen ( LOX ) and kerosene or RP-1 – Saturn V, Zenit rocket, R-7 Semyorka family of Soviet boosters which includes Soyuz, Delta, Saturn I, and Saturn IB first stages, Titan I and Atlas rockets
The arrival of the Voyager spacecraft at Saturn in 1980 – 1981 resulted in the discovery of three additional moons — Atlas, Prometheus and Pandora, bringing the total to 17.
Mr. Chow, uniquely, worked on the guidance computers and guidance systems for every major United States Air Force ICBM and NASA manned space program from the very beginning with the Atlas, through Titan, Gemini, Saturn, and Skylab, to missiles and spacecraft still in service today, Minuteman and the Space Shuttle.
The delivery systems in the game reflect some of those in the American arsenal at the time each set was released, including the Polaris, Atlas and Saturn rockets.
It went on to describe five " generations " of rockets, starting with the early Vanguard, through the Junos, ICBMs like Atlas and Titan, clustered designs like the Saturn, and finally the ultimate development, a cluster using the F-1 with 6 million pounds of thrust.
Six RL10A-3 engines were used in the S-IV second stage of the Saturn I rocket, one or two RL10 engines are used in the Centaur upper stages of Atlas and Titan rockets and one RL10B-2 is used in the upper stage of Delta IV rockets.
Used for the lower stages of the Soyuz boosters, and the first stage of the U. S. Saturn V, Atlas, and Falcon 9 boosters.
The Saturn proposal had always included such a stage for orbital insertion, the Centaur, a hydrogen-burning stage derived from the Atlas ICBM.
Thereafter, Eurynome, whose name was " wide wandering " set male and female Titans for each wandering planet: Theia and Hyperion for the Sun ; Phoebe and Atlas for the Moon ; Metis and Coeus for Mercury ; Tethys and Oceanus for Venus ; Dione and Crius for Mars ; Themis and Eurymedon for Jupiter ; and Rhea and Cronus for Saturn.
Some were those used in the Navaho cruise missile, the Redstone rocket, the Thor and Jupiter ballistic missiles, early versions of the Delta and Atlas rockets, the Saturn rocket family and the Space Shuttle Main Engine.
Because Atlas and Pan orbit within the rings of Saturn, a likely explanation for their ridges is that they sweep up ring particles as they orbit, which build up around their equators.

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