Low density, recent surfaces, and somewhat oblong shapes all hint that some of these moons are likely to be less than 100 million years old.
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Saturn at equinox - The Big Picture - Boston.com - 3 views
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BEAUTIFUL! Cassini images are always amazing...
Cassini's Pale Blue Dot - 2 views
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Earth, as seen from Saturn...
Cassiny observations indicate birth of potential new Saturn moon - 0 views
Saturn's rings gave birth to mini-moons - 0 views
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Researchers suspected that the moons might have originated through some sort of interactions within the A Ring, but the number of bodies involved made modeling the system too computationally challenging. Fortunately, Moore's Law caught up with Cassini, and today's issue of Nature contains a paper that describes a model that successfully reproduces the pattern of moons we now observe.
Observatory - Cassini Data Solves Mystery of Iapetus's Two-Tone Surface - NYTimes.com - 4 views
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dust, most likely from another of Saturn’s moons, falls on the leading side of Iapetus as it orbits the planet
NASA Discovers Pac-Man On Death Star Saturn Moon - Mimas - 2 views
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Pac-Man actually lives on the Death Star!
Evidence of Liquid Water on Enceladus Found - Cassini data have been used to reach this conclusion - Softpedia - 0 views
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cool let's go find life on enceladus! oh no we are going to Jupiter first... no more saturn before... 20...30...years !?
Improved Saturn Positions Help Spacecraft Navigation, Planet Studies, Fundamental Physics - 0 views
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Scientists have used the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio-telescope system and NASA's Cassini spacecraft to measure the position of Saturn and its family of moons to within about a mile -- at a range of nearly a billion miles.
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