Cassini Close-Ups Show Phoebe Details

Credit: CASSINI IMAGING TEAM/UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA/JPL/NASA
Images returned by the Cassini spacecraft from its flyby of Phoebe, the outermost of Saturn's moons, show a heavily cratered sphere that could be as old as the Solar System's 4.5 billion years. Possibly a comet-like Kuiper Belt object that drifted toward the center of the Solar System and was...

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