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Saturn's 'Potato' Moon Epimetheus Bears Scars of Past Collisions (Photo)
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer | July 9, 2017 07:00am ET
It's a hard-knock life for Saturn's moon Epimetheus.
The pale-gray moon, which NASA's website describes as "potato-shaped," is covered in craters from eons of merciless collisions with space debris. Several of these craters are larger than than one-quarter the diameter of the moon itself, according to NASA.
In a newly released, high-resolution image of Epimetheus captured by the Cassini space probe on Feb. 21, this little moon gets a moment in the spotlight. In the photograph, Epimetheus emerges from deep, inky blackness, its surface decorated with gray polka-dots.
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