Ice on close up of Saturn's moon Phoebe
16 June 2004
by Richard
Conan-Davies
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Lets go skiing and have a snow ball fight on Phoebe... well not quite but new close up images from the Cassini space craft flying to Saturn seem to suggest there may well be ice on this moon of the giant ringed planet. The image was taken some 11,918 kilometers away and the apparent ski slopes are between 20 km and 10 km long. The presence of ice suggests the moon may have come from outside the solar system or it could be the remains of comet that crashed into it some millions of years ago
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 Ski slopes on the Phoebe? image:NASA/JPL/ESA |
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