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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Saturn's Hyperion: A Moon with Odd Craters
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| 12 Mar, 2023
| Image Credit: NASA, ESA, JPL, SSI, Cassini Imaging Team
Posted on 03/12/2023 12:39:50 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: What lies at the bottom of Hyperion's strange craters? To help find out, the robot Cassini spacecraft that once orbited Saturn swooped past the sponge-textured moon and took images of unprecedented detail. A six-image mosaic from the 2005 pass, featured here in scientifically assigned colors, shows a remarkable world strewn with strange craters and an odd, sponge-like surface. At the bottom of most craters lies some type of unknown dark reddish material. This material appears similar to that covering part of another of Saturn's moons, Iapetus, and might sink into the ice moon as it better absorbs warming sunlight. Hyperion is about 250 kilometers across, rotates chaotically, and has a density so low that it likely houses a vast system of caverns inside.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa
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03/12/2023 12:40:06 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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03/12/2023 12:40:47 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
Oh, wow! That fellow has some stories to tell.
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posted on
03/12/2023 12:45:49 PM PDT
by
GingisK
To: MtnClimber
almost looks like one big impact followed by a trail of debris behind the big one hitting after that
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posted on
03/12/2023 12:49:12 PM PDT
by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
To: MtnClimber
It has more holes in it than a traffic sign
on a dirt road in south Georgia.
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posted on
03/12/2023 12:52:29 PM PDT
by
Repeal The 17th
(Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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posted on
03/12/2023 12:53:13 PM PDT
by
gitmo
(If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
To: MtnClimber
They spent all that money to get that picture, when all they had to do is look at Slow Joe’s brain scan!
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03/12/2023 1:00:28 PM PDT
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SMARTY
(“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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03/12/2023 1:07:25 PM PDT
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4Liberty
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Do you think there could be space bees?
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posted on
03/12/2023 1:09:32 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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To: Repeal The 17th
It has more holes in it than a traffic sign on a dirt road in south Georgia. Good one!
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03/12/2023 1:18:52 PM PDT
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libertylover
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03/12/2023 1:19:13 PM PDT
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4Liberty
(Dems loot & riot -called "protesting" by media. Repub's protest -called "looting & rioting" by media)
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Looks like one of the objects that hit it was a water balloon.
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03/12/2023 1:23:52 PM PDT
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Steely Tom
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posted on
03/12/2023 1:34:33 PM PDT
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beethovenfan
(The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
To: MtnClimber
I haven’t kept up with the moons of Saturn (at least 82 are known). I commend the astronomer who counted all of Hyperion’s craters and found that it’s an odd number. Do any of the moons have an even number of craters?
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posted on
03/12/2023 1:59:30 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: MtnClimber
That moon looks like it got blasted from an asteroid field.
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03/12/2023 2:02:46 PM PDT
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minnesota_bound
(Need more money to buy everything now)
To: MtnClimber
And we thought the Asian Giant Hornets were badass…
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03/12/2023 2:03:34 PM PDT
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telescope115
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03/12/2023 2:30:03 PM PDT
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DoodleBob
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03/12/2023 2:59:27 PM PDT
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Track9
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