Friday, December 18, 2015

Rotating moons of Saturn


The New York Times has a neat animated feature about the larger moons of Saturn.  Newspapers have come a long way.

Cassini Maps Saturn's Moons

While I've seen images of all these moons before, this is a new perspective. The big "Death Star" crater on Mimas, Herschel, doesn't look as prominent here as in photographs with more shadow. And there's just not a lot to see on Titan. Iapetus, of course, is truly weird.


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