Here’s how it works. The light and dark faces of Saturn's moon Iapetus create a contrast that helped to hide the satellite for years, despite its distant orbit. The moon, which keeps the same ...

Saturn's two-faced moon Iapetus reaches its greatest western elongation today. At western elongation, the moon's lighter ...

Washington University in St. Louis. (2010, December 13). How Saturn's moon Iapetus got its ridge. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2010 / 12 ...

Saturn's ice moon Iapetus has more giant landslides than any solar system body other than Mars. Measurements of the avalanches suggest that some mechanism lowered their coefficients of friction so ...

He contended that first off, Iapetus must be two-toned, with one side significantly lighter and brighter than the other, darker side, and that secondly, it must be tidally locked to Saturn ...

Clear as black and white, Saturn's moon Iapetus is two-faced. One half is dark as coal and the other is as bright as fresh linens. Astronomers have puzzled over the stark difference since late in ...

Saturn's moon, Iapetus, imaged by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in September 2007. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) We recently explored Saturn’s moon, Pan, and its unique, food-like ...

Iapetus, a Saturn moon with jumbled colors, shows its strange surface shapes in a new view from the Cassini mission, which is currently exploring the gas giant. The picture shows Cassini Regio ...

Because of potential water and a source of heat, Olympus Mons has been suggested as a place to look for potential alien life; ...

The ancient moon could explain two long-standing mysteries: Saturn's iconic rings and dramatic tilt. Researchers think Chrysalis was probably about the size of Iapetus, Saturn's third-largest moon.

Saturn's moon Iapetus has virtually no gray. Rather, its features are all stark black and white. The appearance has long puzzled astronomers. New detailed images suggest sunlight is melting ice on ...

But there’s a rarer sight on display: Saturn’s moon Iapetus, now roughly 11th magnitude and about 1’ southwest of the planet. Tomorrow, Iapetus will be less than an arcminute due south of ...