Thursday, March 6, 2008

In this article, it was said that new observations by a spacecraft showed that Saturn's second largest moon may be surrounded by rings. In the image above, NASA shows the ring of debris that may be orbiting one of Saturn's moons. If this statement is proven true, it would be the first time a ring system has been found around a moon. The spacecraft that detected the debris around in the moon is the international Cassini spacecraft. Scientists proposed that the "halo" may contain particles that range from the size of grains to a size of boulders.

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