RocketSTEM Issue #7 - May 2014 | Page 37

High resolution Phoebe: Cassini captured a series of high resolution images of Phoebe during a close encounter. The surface shows many craters. The moon might have been part of an ancestral population of icy, comet-like bodies, some of which now reside in the Kuiper Belt. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute www.RocketSTEM .org 35 35