Posted on 07/11/2007 6:00:17 PM PDT by KevinDavis
One of the strangest moons in our solar system is Hyperion, a Saturnian satellite so pockmarked by deep craters that it looks like a giant, rotating bath sponge adrift in space.
New image analyses suggest the moon's odd appearance is the result of a highly porous surface that preserves craters, allowing them to remain nearly as pristine as the day they were created.
The finding is just one of several new details about the quirky moon revealed in two studies published in the July 5 issue of the journal Nature. Scientists determined that Hyperion is composed mostly of water ice and that the bottoms of its craters are covered in a dark red gunk that could be the key to resolving some of the moon's other strange properties.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
That’s just BAD, Yossarian!!
Well, that put my “giant alien prophylactic” idea to shame.
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Interesting.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/783048.stm
“...The Zag meteorite, which fell in Morocco in 1988, was the second meteorite found to contain salt crystals. Like those in the Monahans meteorite the crystals contained microscopic droplets of water, the key ingredient for life...
http://www.grazian-archive.com/quantavolution/QuantaHTML/vol_04/lately_tortured_earth_10.htm
Metals, Salt & Oil.
The first one is known as the Zig meteorite... ;’)
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