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04-15-2017, 12:47 AM
Saturn has a tiny moon shaped like a dumpling, and I want to eat it right **w
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There are certain things that you learn in a newsroom when the space reporter is away on vacation. One of them is that Saturn has a tiny moon shaped like a dumpling.*
The moon, Atlas, is just 19 miles across, and orbits the large planet outside of its "A ring" — the outermost of the planet's main rings, NASA said.*
SEE ALSO: Amazing Photo Shows Saturn Dwarfing Tiny Moon (http://mashable.com/2012/11/07/saturn-tiny-moon-photo/)
On April 12, NASA's Cassini spacecraft took these pictures of the celestial dumpling, er, I mean moon, Atlas.*
The spacecraft whizzed by the moon at a distance of about 7,000 miles, making these the closest pictures ever taken of Atlas. Scientists hope the images will help them better understand the moon's shape and geology.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/14/saturn-tiny-moon-atlas-dumpling/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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There are certain things that you learn in a newsroom when the space reporter is away on vacation. One of them is that Saturn has a tiny moon shaped like a dumpling.*
The moon, Atlas, is just 19 miles across, and orbits the large planet outside of its "A ring" — the outermost of the planet's main rings, NASA said.*
SEE ALSO: Amazing Photo Shows Saturn Dwarfing Tiny Moon (http://mashable.com/2012/11/07/saturn-tiny-moon-photo/)
On April 12, NASA's Cassini spacecraft took these pictures of the celestial dumpling, er, I mean moon, Atlas.*
The spacecraft whizzed by the moon at a distance of about 7,000 miles, making these the closest pictures ever taken of Atlas. Scientists hope the images will help them better understand the moon's shape and geology.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/14/saturn-tiny-moon-atlas-dumpling/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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