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Hyperion: the "Floating Column"
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Caption NASA:"Saturn's irregularly shaped moon Hyperion is completely covered with large pits from which much of its material has been blasted by impacts, never to return. The moon's surface gravity is so low that crater-ejected material often escapes Hyperion entirely.
Hyperion is 280 Km (about 174 miles) across on average.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Oct. 21, 2007. The view was obtained at a distance of approx. 151.000 Km (such as about 94.000 miles) from Hyperion and at a Sun-Hyperion-Spacecraft, or phase, angle of 111°.
Image scale is 906 meters (0,6 mile) per pixel".
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