NASA Cassini Images May Reveal Birth of a Saturn Moon
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 15, 2014 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft has documented the formation of a small icy object within the rings of Saturn that may be a new moon, and may also provide clues to the formation of the planet's known moons. Images taken with Cassini's narrow angle camera on April 15, 2013, show disturbances at the very edge of Saturn's A ring - the outermost of the planet's large, bright rings. One of these dist ... more

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