There's a huge mosaic of the moon in question behind this cut and an even larger one over at the Planetary Blog.
- Enormous Iapetus mosaic
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james_nicoll- September 15th, 2007
Courtesy of the Planetary Society Blog a discussion of the new images of Iapetus.
There's a huge mosaic of the moon in question behind this cut and an even larger one over at the Planetary Blog.
2007-09-15 09:07 pm (UTC)
2007-09-16 01:24 am (UTC)
at least thats what the patterns the dark spots all over the right side suggest.
not sure if theres a crater on the far side to match the ejecta spray.
2007-09-16 03:22 am (UTC)
It's so tempting to propose some association with the equatorial ridge, but what that association would be is not clear. The ridge seems to peter out somewhere in the western transition region after poking up those white mountains, and it doesn't really go all the way to the eastern end. But it's mostly in the dark area.
(Anonymous)
2007-09-16 11:33 am (UTC)
I want to see the spectra...
Andreas Morlok