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."
Built? (Score:2, Insightful)
Toss another story into the DUH file (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Actually relevant (Score:5, Insightful)
A planet/moon is just aggregated dust from something. Being aggregated ring dust doesn't make it less of a moon.
Re:Built? (Score:3, Insightful)
Too much to ask? (Score:3, Insightful)
Is it too much to ask that New Scientist stop using crappy CGI and start posting some of the actual photographs that the astronomers used to form their theories?
Sedimentary moons . . . (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Actually relevant (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Too much to ask? (Score:2, Insightful)
Ideally you publish both. The actual photos are a bit hard for a non-expert to interpret. The stark lighting of space makes it difficult to see the full shape.