April 14, 2014: NASAs Cassini spacecraft has documented the formation of a small icy object within the rings of Saturn. Informally named Peggy, the object may be a new moon. Details of the observations were published online today by the journal Icarus. We have not seen anything like this before, said Carl Murray of Queen Mary University of London, and the reports lead author. We may be looking at the act of birth, where this object is just leaving the rings and heading off to be a moon in its own right. science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/14apr_newmoon/
Posted on: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 04:47:51 +0000