Tag: Inner Moons

Formation of Atlas, one of the small inner moons of Saturn. Its flat, ravioli-like shape is the result of a merging collision of two similar-sized bodies. The picture is a snapshot in mid-collision, before the moon’s reorientation due to tides is completed. © A. Verdier

Peculiar ‘Ravioli-Like’ Shapes Of Inner Moons Of Saturn – How Did They Form?

MessageToEagle.com | May 29, 2018

MessageToEagle.com – For the first time, researchers of the University of Bern show how the small inner moons of Saturn, with an unusual and rather spectacular shape, were formed.