Saturn’s weird moon Pan
New images from Cassini have provided scientists their first sharp images of Saturn’s moon Pan, and what those images show is something really weird. The image on the right is only one sample, with the link providing more.
Pan orbits in a gap between two rings, and the ridge might have accumulated from material from those rings. Then again, maybe not. It will take more data to I think completely unravel how this moon got to look like it does.
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New images from Cassini have provided scientists their first sharp images of Saturn’s moon Pan, and what those images show is something really weird. The image on the right is only one sample, with the link providing more.
Pan orbits in a gap between two rings, and the ridge might have accumulated from material from those rings. Then again, maybe not. It will take more data to I think completely unravel how this moon got to look like it does.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
This is a cool image. I think its fitting that Pan looks like a small molded version of Saturn.
Saturn’s weird moon is making me hungry!
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I saw that once in a Doctor Who episode … ;)
I think it was made with a Vac-U-Form.
Ridiculous! A world with an edge to fall off of.
Talk about building a wall. Imagine being at the equator there, near the foot of a huge vertical wall which has no going-around-it.
Its the ‘Flight Of The Navigator’ s ship.
Should attract mountaineers in the future. Who said there is no market for space tourism?
The mountaineers wouldn’t have to worry about falling off the cliff face. They’d have to worry about drifting off in space.
Looks like a giant walnut. Future Star trek shows will never be the same
It looks fake. I think someone’s pulling our leg!
Richard Hoagland is going to have a field day with this one!
This is ammunition for The Flat Earth Society.