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Three new moons discovered around Saturn by the Cassini spacecraft have been given provisional names.
The discoveries were made last year, not long after Cassini had arrived in orbit around the ringed planet.
Two moons detected in August have been given the names Methone and Pallene, while another found in October has been provisionally named Polydeuces.
Three more candidate objects are still awaiting confirmation as moons.
Methone and Pallene circle Saturn between the orbits of two other Saturnian moons, Mimas and Enceladus. They were discovered by Sebastien Charnoz at the University of Paris, France.
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