The Mystery Of Saturn's Ravioli-Shaped Moons Has Finally Been Solved
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After almost twenty years in space — thirteen of which were spent making extraordinary discoveries about the Saturn system, including its rings and natural satellites — NASA's Cassini spacecraft finally ran out of fuel. However, shortly before plunging into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, 2017, the probe completed one final important mission: six close flybys of tiny moons located inside, or near, Saturn's rings.
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bsc5년 이하Interesting!- IceChes약 6년Doesn't Saturn technically have, like, 1 million moons if the rings are made of rocks and ice?
tdflame52720075년 이하The main rings are much younger than the age of the solar system, perhaps only a few hundred million years old. They may have formed from the breakup of one of Saturn's moons or from a comet or meteor that was torn apart by Saturn's gravity.
mcfredbear6년 이상This is really interesting to me. Esspecially if the "ravioli-shaped" moons are just part of a bigger whole that could've been destroyed over a decade ago! I mean, the possiblities of what happened to create the moons are endless.
a-panda6년 이상Wow!
girlwhobrowsesz6년 이상I think that these moons were formed by Saturn's rings, since other planets don't have rings and their moons aren't misshaped (some of them). Plus, Atlas looks like a tiny version of Saturn, sincen it is inside of the rings just like Daphnis and Pan. This is just me made-up theory, and let's hope in the future I am correct! (I just turned 10!)- girlwhobrowsesz약 6년I also feel like the moons were forming and Saturn's rings froze it in the process. Saturn's rings are made out of rocks and ice, anyways. Epimetheus is not in the rings and the texture looks normal, unlike the other moons.
- mcfredbear6년 이상noice. i tuned 12 over a month ago :/
jedid086년 이상cool
in2th3n3th3r6년 이상They kind of look like seashells.
flowerdaisy1436년 이상wow
greencrab46년 이상I thought one of thos was ice cream lol- Kazoo kid 6년 이상MMMM... Makez me hungry