cassini spies two new saturn moons...

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Cassini spies 2 new Saturn moons

Monday, August 16, 2004 Posted: 5:48 PM EDT (2148 GMT)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spied two new little moons around satellite-rich Saturn, the space agency said Monday.

Saturn's tally of known moons now stands at 33.

The images were taken by Cassini on June 1 from 10 million miles out, as it approached the ringed planet. The spacecraft entered orbit around Saturn on June 30.

story.new.moon.jpg

The tiny "worldlet," temporarily dubbed
S/2004 S2 (in box) as it makes its way
around Saturn.

more on this...

news on the official Cassini website

and since i found it almost impossible to see them on the pictures, here are the animated gif's from the nasa website. warning: 3 MB per image! remarkable that people can find these kind of small details :eek:

animated, moon #1
animated, moon #2
 
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