Saturn's Moons Built From Ring Material 115
LiquidCoooled writes "Two of Saturn's small moons look eerily like flying saucers, new observations by the Cassini spacecraft reveal. The moons, which lie within the giant planet's rings, may have come by their strange shape by gradually accumulating ring particles in a ridge around their equators."
Actually relevant (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Moon with a wall (Score:3, Informative)
Then again there could be a 'black ring' further out which explains the two-tone colouring of the moon and the equatoral wall. The only problem is that we haven't detected and rings out there.
Re:Too much to ask? (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.planetary.org/explore/topics/saturn/atlas.html [planetary.org]
Real Images of Pan and Atlas (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Too much to ask? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:News? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Check out the movie (Score:3, Informative)
Honestly, Sebastien's English is so much better than my French, I would never complain.