Saturn’s weird moon Pan
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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.
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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.
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.