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　　Image taken by cameras on board the Cassini Orbiter spacecraft and released by NASA shows the Earth's Moon. Astronomers say they have identified a place on the Moon that is an ideal location for a tentative lunar colony.(Photo)

　　 The Cassini spacecraft has found a new moon in the outer edge of Saturn's bright main rings, confirming previous suspicions by scientists, NASA reported Tuesday.

　　The new moon, 7 km in diameter, is a tiny object in the center of the Keeler gap which is located about 250 km inside the outer edge of the A ring. A ring is also the outer edge of Saturn's bright main rings.

　　Cassini took images of the new moon and the wavy patterns its gravitational influence generates in the gap edges. A NASA news release said the spacecraft first caught the new moon's picture onMay 1 as it began climb to higher inclinations in orbit. A closer view the next day allowed it to measure the moon's size and brightness.

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