Tag: Advent 2012

• An Egg Moon (Science Advent 2)

  (Every day until Christmas, I’ll be posting a science-related image.) Day 2 Saturn’s moons are a treasurehouse of beauty and strangeness. I’ll highlight a few for this Advent calendar, beginning with one we still don’t know much about: Methone. This moon is egg-shaped and tiny: only about 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) across its longest side.…

  Matthew R. Francis

  December 3, 2012

  Astronomy

  Advent 2012, Saturn moons