Cassini photographs Phoebe
13 June 2004
by Richard
Conan-Davies
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The NASA JPL spacecraft Cassini has almost reached it's orbital position on the 1st of July but just yesterday NASA released the images of one of Saturn's moon Phoebe. The image shows quite a spectacular pock marked asteroid shaped object. With so many marks on the surface astronomers and geologists believe this to be a very old object perhaps as old as the formation of the solar system itself at 4,500 million years ago. |
 The cratered surface of Phoebe image:NASA/JPL/ESA |
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