Monday, January 10, 2005

Iapetus Image From Cassini-Huygens

While I was reviewing the oficial Cassini-Huygens spacecraft web I have met this curious image from Iapetus, one of Saturn's moon.
In the image you can see a extrange geological formatio similar to a ridge. This ridge is just in ecuatorial zone of the moon. The formation is 20 Km from width and 1300 Km from length.
In future, Cassini-Huygens will fly over Iapetus again nearer and we will be able to see better images from the ridge. I hope in the future wi will be able to discover the physical phenomenom that formed the ridge.

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