Cassini image gallery
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Published: Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Phoebe near closest approachNear closest approach, Cassini captured this view of an 8-mile (13-kilometer) wide crater with a debris-covered floor. Radial streaks on the crater walls are due to ejacta fragments sliding down the slope. Boulders ranging in size from about 160 to 990 feet (50 to 300 meters) wide are also visible. They may have been excavated by large impacts, perhaps from some other region of Phoebe. There is no visible evidence for layering in this region, as on other parts of this...