Snuggled close to Saturn, these innermost moons are small — Epimetheus, one of the largest, stretches just 72 miles across. But they are hefty enough to help sculpt Saturn’s rings.

Saturn's Epimetheus is ready for its close-up in an image showing how rough life can be for an unprotected moon out in space. NASA's Cassini probe snaps close-up of Saturn moon Epimetheus - CNET X ...

Life is hard for a little moon. Epimetheus, seen here with Saturn in the background, is lumpy and misshapen, thanks in part to its size and formation process. Epimetheus did […] ...

North on Epimetheus is up and rotated 5 degrees to the left. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Dec. 6, 2015.

In December 2015 the Cassini spacecraft flew close to Saturn's weird, tiny moon Epimetheus for a look, the last close pass before the mission ends in 2017.

Although Epimetheus appears to be orbiting between the A and F rings in this image, it’s just an illusion! Epimetheus, which orbits Saturn well outside of the F ring’s orbit, […] ...

I. t is possible for two objects to share the same orbits, but not the exact same orbit.. Saturn’s moons Janus and Epimetheus run on orbits that differ in size by only 30 miles (50 km). This ...