Saturn May Have New Moon Forming In Its Rings - HD

2014-04-16 15

A NASA spacecraft may have witnessed the birth of a new Saturn moon.

Photographs taken by NASA's Cassini probe in April 2013 show a bright arc about 750 miles (1,200 kilometers) long and 6 miles (10 km) wide at the edge of Saturn's outermost ring (known as the A ring). This arc and some strange bumps nearby were probably created by the gravity of a small, icy object, possibly a newborn moon, a new study reports.

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