土星的卫星

环绕这颗行星的 17 个冰冷天体展现出惊人的地质演化范围。它们中的许多都有超过 40 亿年历史的陨石坑,但其中一个的地面如此年轻,以至于看不到任何陨石坑

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TORRENCE V. JOHNSON has an asteroid named after him: 2614 Torrence, a body about one kilometer in diameter. Working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., he has been the project scientist for Galileo since 1977--some three quarters of his career as a planetary scientist. He was a member of the imaging team for Voyager and is now on the imaging team for the Cassini mission to Saturn.

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大众科学 Magazine Vol 246 Issue 1This article was originally published with the title “The Moons of Saturn” in 大众科学 Magazine Vol. 246 No. 1 (), p. 100
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0182-100
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