A newly discovered, third-of-a-mile wide moonlet could be responsible for Saturn’s outer most ring according to Cassini spacecraft scientists.“The moon’s discovery and the disturbance of its trajectory by the neighboring moon Mimas highlight the close association between moons and rings that we see throughout the Saturn system,” says Cassini imaging team scientist Carl Murray of Queen Mary University of London, in a statement.
NASA instruments aboard Cassini spotted the moonlet on Aug. 15, 2008, partly embedded in the faint, outermost “G” ring of Saturn. The moonlet orbits within a ring arc 150 miles wide and 90,000 miles long, stretching a sixth of the way around Saturn. The Cassini spacecraft should examine the ring and its moonlet in greater detail next year.
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