Misterious formation on a Saturn moon
From an NASA article about a Cassini-Huygens image of “Saturn’s intriguing moon Iapetus”:
The most unique, and perhaps most remarkable feature discovered on Iapetus in Cassini images is a topographic ridge that coincides almost exactly with the geographic equator. The ridge is conspicuous in the picture as an approximately 20-kilometer wide (12 miles) band that extends from the western (left) side of the disc almost to the day/night boundary on the right. On the left horizon, the peak of the ridge reaches at least 13 kilometers (8 miles) above the surrounding terrain. Along the roughly 1,300 kilometer (800 mile) length over which it can be traced in this picture, it remains almost exactly parallel to the equator within a couple of degrees. The physical origin of the ridge has yet to be explained.
Have a look at the full-sized image and tell me what you think. Maybe a product of Slartibartfast’s training years?
January 14, 2005 Filed under: science
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I am from Bosnia-Republic of Serbska so my English is not so well,but I am gone to try to explane.
It coulod hapen that some large object,and you can see that trags al over this moon,there is some large holes like on our mon but scary big,some kind of space moving object might hit this moon,but it was not a speed hit,and after thet made this large hole that you can see,and make the moon fallin apart on eqator becosu of gravity that hold him around the saturn and after that its geting could and hold that anomaly on surface….
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