NASA Spacecraft Spies New Moons Around Saturn

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has spied two new little moons around satellite-rich Saturn, the space agency said Monday.

Saturn’s tally of known moons now stands at 33.

The images were taken by Cassini on June 1 from 10 million miles out, as it approached the ringed planet. The spacecraft entered orbit around Saturn on June 30.

The two newly spotted, faint moons are about 2 miles and 2 1/2 miles across, and 120,000 miles and 131,000 miles respectively from Saturn’s center. That’s considerably smaller than the moons with 12 mile diameters previously discovered in Saturn’s orbit.