Saturn's Smallest Moons Grew Gradually (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Saturn's Smallest Moons Grew Gradually (1 of 2)

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Synthetic image of Atlas. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Dec. 7, 2007 issue of the journal Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Sébastien Charnoz and colleagues at Université Paris and CNRS in Gif-sur-Yvette, France, was titled "The Equatorial Ridges of Pan and Atlas: Terminal Accretionary Ornaments?"

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