Enigmatically, some landslides flow farther than normal frictional resistance allows. Cassini images of Saturn's icy moon Iapetus reveal a multitude of long-runout landslides that may have been ...
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There are hundreds of moons near Earth. These are the weirdest, strangest of them all
There are hundreds of moons in our patch of space. Some are tiny, some huge; some neatly spherical, some potato-shaped. Some ...
“We see landslides everywhere in the solar system,” said Kelsi Singer from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, “but Saturn’s icy moon Iapetus has more giant landslides than any body other ...
The strangest feature on Iapetus is the equatorial ridge. What could possibly create a feature like this? To paraphrase the British geneticist J.B.S Haldane, "in my suspicion, the Universe is not only ...
SAN FRANCISCO --Iapetus, one of Saturn’s weirdest moons, has an enormous equatorial mountain ridge, a spiky belt that rises 12 miles above the moon’s surface. How Iapetus built that belt – the only ...
Saturn’s moon Iapetus reaches western elongation today, when it is at its brightest. Now around 10th magnitude, you can find Iapetus some 10’ west of Saturn. The ringed planet is already above the ...
Two scientists propose an explanation for the bizarre ridge belting Saturn's moon Iapetus at the equator. At one time Iapetus itself may have had a satellite, created by a giant impact with another ...
The origin of Iapetus's Janus faces is one of the longest standing mysteries in the solar system, one that has persisted since the moon's discovery by the astronomer Giovanni Cassini in 1671. But the ...
The Cassini spacecraft's flyby of Saturn's moon Iapetus has revealed a bizarre geological feature in its images: a bulging ridge at its equator. Mission scientists have started to release detailed ...
Saturn's distinctive moon Iapetus (eye-APP-eh-tuss) is cryogenically frozen in the equivalent of its teenage years. The moon has retained the youthful figure and bulging waistline it sported more than ...
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, with ...
The Cassini spacecraft's flyby of Saturn's moon Iapetus has revealed a bizarre geological feature in its images: a bulging ridge at its equator. Mission scientists have started to release detailed ...
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