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They’re also the only such mountains anywhere on Iapetus’ surface (reaching as high as 63,000 feet tall). (Giving this strange moon the propensity for ice avalanches!) Pretty weird, right?
Their simulations showed that if Iapetus had a disk of material, that disk as it fell to the moon’s surface could have created the mountain range.
The black-and-white surface of Saturn’s moon Iapetus has puzzled scientists for centuries. Now, astronomers can explain how the bright white Iapetian surface is darkened.
Seen from the surface of Iapetus, Saturn looms about four times larger than a full Moon in Earth’s sky. Ever since its discovery by Cassini in 1671, something seemed strange about Iapetus.
Saturn's two-faced moon Iapetus reaches its greatest western elongation today. At western elongation, the moon's lighter hemisphere is turned toward Earth, making it brightest and easiest to view ...
Iapetus, a Saturn moon with jumbled colors, shows its strange surface shapes in a new view from the Cassini mission, which is currently exploring the gas giant.
Iapetus, a moon of Saturn, has baffled astronomers since the early days of telescopic observation. It seemed to vanish and reappear without explanation, earning it a mythical status in early ...
Saturn's moon Iapetus has many unique features that stand out even among the odd Solar System satellites. Its shape is very walnut-like: flattened at the poles, bulging strongly at the equator ...
A ring crashing down on the surface of Saturn's moon Iapetus may have created the satellite's distinctive raised ridges.
Iapetus: A space walnut Iapetus' ridge is 62 miles (100 kilometers) wide and 12 miles (20 km) high in places. It neatly tracks the moon's equator and covers nearly 75 percent of Iapetus' surface.
It lives on Saturn’s strange moon Iapetus, a world with a two-toned surface that is quite like the wildly varied surface of Pluto.