[crispyambulance]

The moons of Saturn are small even compared to the earth. One could expect far more "wreckage" to survive the entry to a moon.

Getting into Saturn, however, is vastly different. Casssini has broken up into many smallish, white-hot pieces only to eventually merge into clouds of ammonia at -200C that are blowing at extreme velocities. Further down, there are clouds of water at 0C and then metallic liquid hydrogen. Perhaps pieces could end up there or on the rocky core? Saturn is a weird place.

How much worse than an autoclave is entry to Saturn?

[Pigo]

Titan is actually larger than Mercury. Just something I learned yesterday while reading Cassini posts. It really puts the size of Saturn into perspective.

[dmoy]

Mercury is also real damn small. Just a tiny bit bigger than Earth's moon.

[FreeFull]

Titan is larger, but also significantly less dense. Mercury is more massive than Titan.

[craftyguy]

Mercury is pretty much just a leftover iron core