Voyager 2 took this photo of Phoebe in 1981. It and four newly discovered moons, S 1, 7, 9 and 12, orbit Saturn in nearly the same retrograde path. Phoebe is about 120 miles (200 km) in diameter, while its sister moons are much smaller: between 1.8 and five miles across (3 to 8 km. Click to enlarge.

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