Saturn’s Moon Hyperion
Written by Alan Bellows on 04 October 2005
On September 26, 2005, the Cassini spacecraft flew by Saturn’s moon Hyperion, and captured some fascinating images revealing its unusual surface. The photo has been corrected with “false-color” in order to make more subtle color variations more apparent, but viewed in natural color, the moon’s surface has a red tint to it. Most likely, the color differences represent the varying surface materials that make up the small moon. The high-resolution image is gorgeous, and shows the deep, dark-bottomed craters in detail.
The Cassini spacecraft is part of a joint space exploration effort between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency.
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It looks like a big metalic barnacle! But yeah pretty cool, for a space rock. Oh and hey first post, it only took a year to pry a crack outta someone, so I guess its a doubious point. humm…