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Article: Saturnian moonscape.(PLANETARY SCIENCE)(Saturn's tiny moon Epimetheus)(Brief Article)

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May 21, 2005
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Scientists have obtained their closest view yet of Saturn's tiny moon Epimetheus. Taken by the Cassini spacecraft, the portrait shows that the moon, whose name in Greek means "afterthought", has an irregular shape and is pocked with soft-edged craters. The high density of these craters implies that the surface of Epimetheus is several billion years old.

Once every 4 years, the 16-kilometerwide body exchanges orbits with Janus, a slightly bigger Saturnian moon. The ...

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