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
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.*
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