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Strange Moons

  • May 4, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Pan and Atlas, two of Saturn’s smaller moons, look a lot like flying saucers. Both orbit within the planet’s rings, and scientists think each slowly took form by attracting particles from the rings to a ridge around its middle, creating the unusual UFO shape.

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