Phoebe: Discovered in August 1898 by American ... As such, it has been dubbed the yin and yang of the Saturn moons. Iapetus, like Rhea, is thought to be composed of ice and rock.
is thought to originate from Phoebe, the largest of Saturn's irregular moons—and like its parent moon, the Phoebe ring orbits in retrograde. (For the full-size (enormous) version of this ...
The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...
Analyses performed by the VIMS spectrometer on board Cassini suggest that the 200 kilometre diameter moon Phoebe may be of similar origin. The hypothesis that many of these small, irregular bodies ...
called regular moons, follow nearly circular paths that share a plane with the planets' equators. But some satellites are much stranger. Take Phoebe, one of Saturn's weirder moons. It has an ...
In 2005, an alien probe flew through the hazy and cold atmosphere of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, and landed on the world's surface. That spacecraft -- named the Huygens probe -- was sent ...
A theory involving a "mushy zone" of ice along the moon’s fissures could explain the enormous plumes erupting from its south pole. Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has long been considered a ...