It’s where the Pacific continent went.
That’s the ring of fire...
A very interesting moon!
Neat. Makes me want to crack some walnuts.
Now here is somewhere we could actually visit, survey & explore relatively cheaply with unmanned vehicles. As opposed to guesstimated pics and data of somewhere separated by 7,500,000 light years in time and distance.
“”image was taken by the Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft””
Man o’ man. Can we build cool stuff, or what? Cassini lasted over a decade, flying in and around Saturn’s rings and moons.
The Mars rover Opportunity was scheduled to last, at least, 90 days. It lasted just a wee bit longer, over 14 years. The latest Mars rovers are Curiosity and Perseverance. They are both the size of an SUV, and nuke powered. While Opportunity depended upon the Sun for energy,
Curiosity and Perseverance have no such restrictions. Opportunity’s solar panels would become covered with Martian dust, and less energy was the result. Fortunately, Mars has swirling dust devils that would clean off the dust from time to time.
Curiosity has been truckin’ on Mars for 10 years. Perseverance landed just 2 years ago. Attached to Perseverance was a glorious experiment. A small helicopter device to determine if flying is possible in the Martian atmosphere. Scientists, real scientists, were not sure flying was possible. The little ‘copter that could’ is named Ingenuity. If it flew, they estimated it might last 30 days. Well...like other JPL* successes, Ingenuity is still flying today. Also on the Perseverance rover is an oxygen experiment called Moxie. Mars’ atmosphere is mostly C02. Moxie has proven that we can crack the C02 molecules and create, produce oxygen. Instead of having to bring massive amounts of oxygen to Mars, we can make it ourselves.
*JPL is the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It is well worth an internet search to read about all we have done.
Well, for starters, it was die cast.
That weird ridge of mountains is about 3 times the height of Mt. Everest. The bright parts are about 6 brighter than the dark parts. In the novel version of Space Odyssey: 2001, the monolith that swallowed Dave Bowman was located on Iapetus.
Clearly it is constructed object. A “satellite” of “other origin”.
Or the cosmos pooped out a generally round moon made of metals.
When it finds out we’ve been eating walnuts on earth, we are doomed!
Looks like a walnut.