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Images of Saturn's small moons tell the story of their origins

Imaging scientists on the Cassini mission are telling a tale of how the small moons orbiting near the outer rings of Saturn came to be. The moons began as leftover shards from larger bodies that broke apart and filled out their figures with the debris that made the rings.

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