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What’s happening on the surface of Saturn’s moon Helene?
The moon was imaged in
unprecedented detail last week as the
robotic
Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn
swooped to within
two Earth diameters of the diminutive moon.
Although conventional craters and hills appear, the above raw and unprocessed image also
shows terrain that appears unusually smooth and
streaked.
Planetary astronomers will be inspecting [...]
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Why is this moon of Saturn so smooth?
This past weekend, humanity’s Saturn-orbiting
Cassini spacecraft
passed as close to Saturn’s small moon
Calypso as it ever has, and imaged the small moon in unprecedented detail.
Pictured above is an early return, raw, unprocessed image of the 20-km long irregularly shaped moon.
Like its sister moon
Telesto and the [...]
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A timelapse of the total lunar eclipse on February 20th, 2008. Recorded with still images. Thanks for the feature! peteherron.com The image shakes because the moon moves during the night, obviously. It’s hard to keep the moon in the exact same spot of the frame while it’s constantly moving. The sound was from video that [...]
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