NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has found within Saturn’s G ring an embedded moonlet that appears as a faint, moving pinprick of light. Scientists believe it is a main source of the G ring and its single ring arc.<\/p>\n
Cassini imaging scientists analyzing images acquired over the course of about 600 days found the tiny moonlet, half a kilometer (about a third of a mile) across, embedded within a partial ring, or ring arc, previously found by Cassini in Saturn’s tenuous G ring. <\/p>\n
The finding is being announced today in an International Astronomical Union circular. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
You can see the moon as a bright dot in three different locations in the arc of a planetary ring in this photo:<\/p>\n
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See an uncropped version of this photo here<\/a> and here<\/a>, and more information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" … hiding in a Ring of Saturn. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has found within Saturn’s G ring an embedded moonlet that appears as a faint, moving pinprick of light. Scientists believe it is a main source of the G ring and its single ring arc. Cassini imaging scientists analyzing images acquired over the course of about … Continue reading Yet Another Moon Found<\/span>