Saturn's Moon Rhea Also May Have Rings
U.S. Newswire, March, 2008
To: SCIENCE EDITORS
Contact: Dwayne Brown of NASA Headquarters, Washington, 1-202- 358-1726, dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov, or Carolina Martinez of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., 1-818-354-9382, carolina.martinez@jpl.nasa.gov
PASADENA, Calif., March 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found evidence of material orbiting Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon. This is the first time rings may have been found around a moon.
A broad debris disk and at least one ring appear to have been detected by a suite of six instruments on Cassini specifically designed to study the atmospheres and particles around Saturn and its moons.
"Until now, only planets were known to have rings, but now Rhea seems to have some family ties to...
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