Pan, Daphnis, Atlas, Pandora and Epimetheus each measure between eight and 116 kilometres in diameter.
WASHINGTON - Nestled between Saturn's rings are a collection of mini-moons that NASA's Cassini spacecraft skimmed past in 2017.
Some 4,000 scientific articles have been published about Cassini's findings, and the well of knowledge is nowhere near dry. But the study reinforces the dominant theory that Saturn's rings and moons stem from the same celestial body, which shattered as a result of some kind of collision.
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