image: This global digital map of Iapetus was created using data taken during Cassini and Voyager spacecraft flybys. The map is an equidistant projection and has a scale of 641 meters (2,103 feet ...

These were likely generated when material fell from a great height and travelled a long way in the light gravity of the moon. Given that Iapetus does have a high peak and the longest landslides ...

They use data from the Cassini mission and photogrammetric techniques to map Iapetian ... the surface of Iapetus. According to Singer and colleagues' measurements, typical height–length ratios ...

But on Iapetus, the pieces of ice move 20 to 30 times as far as their falling height. Flash heating could be providing that extra push. Faster and farther Flash heating occurs when material falls ...

This map of the surface of Saturn’s moon Iapetus (1,436 kilometers, or 892 miles across), generated from images taken by NASA’s Voyager spacecraft, illustrates the imaging coverage planned ...

Saturn's ice moon Iapetus has more giant landslides than ... it gives way," McKinnon says. Falling from such heights, the ice reaches high speeds -- and then something odd happens.

We use the ratio of drop height to runout length as an approximation for the friction coefficient of landslide material. We find that on Iapetus this ratio falls between 0.1 and 0.3, but does not ...

The resulting two-colored treat would resemble one of Saturn’s weirder moons, Iapetus — an icy world with a coal-black face and a bright white backside. For centuries astronomers have puzzled ...

This global digital map of Iapetus was created using data taken during Cassini and Voyager spacecraft flybys. The map is an equidistant projection and has a scale of 641 meters (2,103 feet ...

“We see landslides everywhere in the solar system,” said Kelsi Singer from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, “but Saturn’s icy moon Iapetus ... from such heights, the ice ...