Here’s a Look at Saturn’s Most Tortured Moon

time ^ | Jeffrey Kluger

[doc1019]

Looks like my face when I was a teenager.

[cripplecreek]

it would have murdered Tethys outright

More of that scienc-ey lingo.

[BenLurkin]

You know I considered putting a “purpose prose alert” in the headline. Probably should have.

[Talisker]

There’s no telling how many other moons in Saturn’s litter did suffer that fate. It is a matter of cosmic history that Tethys didn’t. And it’s a matter of cosmic fact that we have reason to be grateful.

Curious closing statement. Not only isn't anyone cosmically grateful that Tethys didn't shatter, no one even gives a damn it exists.

[DemforBush]

It never ceases to amaze me just how many wondrous and awesome (in the original, take-your-breath-away sense of the word) things there are in our little solar system. I admit I’m a little envious of the future generations who will get to see some of those great mysteries unraveled.

[Cicero]

I'll take Tethys, the Greek goddess:

[shibumi]

Ping

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Nearly every one of the uncounted hits it has taken in its 4-plus billion years of life is stamped in its face...”

Quite shilling for Hillary! *SMIRK*

[MarineBrat]

Reads like a journalism degree trying to wax romantic about science. Ohhh... Time.

[Prospero]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks shibumi, extra to APoD.

[Red Badger]

It would have become another ring..........................

[Red Badger]

It doesn't look so bad.........................

[Larry Lucido]

Most of those dents will buff right out.

[Red Badger]

And a can or two of Bondo can fill the rest.....................

[martin_fierro]

Leave it to those ditzy broads at Time.

Planets can be murdered, but not fetuses.

[COBOL2Java]

Tethys enjoys no such cosmetic advantages. Nearly every one of the uncounted hits it has taken in its 4-plus billion years of life is stamped in its face, giving the rocky, icy world an almost sponge-like appearance.

[BenLurkin]

[null and void]

Those coneheads in my father's squadron used bondo to "fix" a crease in the wing of an F8U-2N.

They didn't bother to tell the pilot how they fixed it until after the supersonic test flight...