[Vaquero]

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[LRS]

(Forgot to include some pics)

"You got chocolate on my peanutbutter!"

"You got peanutbutter on my chocolate!"

[Red Badger]

Galactic cosmic ray?...................

[Izzy Dunne]

Sprinkle a little cosmic linking dust, and voila:

Iapetus flyby images are available at: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://ciclops.org.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Looks like a giant walnut. Interesting that the dark areas are on the sunlight fringe. Must be some volatiles acting up.

[SunkenCiv]

related:

Arthur Clarke’s Video Greeting for Cassini’s Iapetus Flyby
Cassini-Huygens Home Page | September 10, 2007 | Arthur C. Clarke (NASA)
Posted on 09/17/2007 12:37:15 PM EDT by cogitator
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1897866/posts

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Looks like they got pictures out the yin-yang LOL.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

http://wanderingspace.net/?cat=30
http://wanderingspace.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/2560x1600_set01.thumbnail.jpg
http://wanderingspace.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/hyperion.thumbnail.jpg

Hyperion is an irregularly shaped moon and like most of these was thought to be a “captured” moon of Saturn, which is an object that strays too close to a larger body and is pulled into its orbit. Soon other theories suggested that perhaps it was a single fragment of some larger body which was largely destroyed and perhaps is what littered Iapetus with its darker material. Now, closer observations show us that much of Hyperion’s interior is hollow space... or nothing... which could mean that Hyperion is actually a collection of smaller fragments of ice and some rock which over time pulled itself together to form Hyperion. In other words an orbiting pile of rubble.

[Fred Nerks]

The images show a giant landslide from a 15km-high scarp

I think it's cracked!