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What's all over Hyperion? (context image)
Caption NASA:"Hyperion, the eighth largest of Saturn's nearly 60 known moons, is covered in craters and landslides. Sprinkled over the icy surface is a thin layer of organic dust, which has somehow been concentrated in the bottoms of some of the craters, forming a reddish/black deposit. 
This new color map shows the composition of a portion of Hyperion's surface determined with the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer aboard the Cassini spacecraft. The new composition map is overlaid onto a previously released Cassini image of Hyperion, taken with the Imaging Science Subsystem. 
(...) Discovered in 1848, Hyperion held its secrets until the Cassini spacecraft flew close in September 2005, revealing its icy and organic composition. 
Hyperion is irregular in shape, tumbles chaotically, and takes 21 days to orbit Saturn. It is 300 Km (about 180 miles) in its longest dimension".
Parole chiave: Saturn's Moons - Hyperion

What's all over Hyperion? (context image)

Caption NASA:"Hyperion, the eighth largest of Saturn's nearly 60 known moons, is covered in craters and landslides. Sprinkled over the icy surface is a thin layer of organic dust, which has somehow been concentrated in the bottoms of some of the craters, forming a reddish/black deposit.
This new color map shows the composition of a portion of Hyperion's surface determined with the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer aboard the Cassini spacecraft. The new composition map is overlaid onto a previously released Cassini image of Hyperion, taken with the Imaging Science Subsystem.
(...) Discovered in 1848, Hyperion held its secrets until the Cassini spacecraft flew close in September 2005, revealing its icy and organic composition.
Hyperion is irregular in shape, tumbles chaotically, and takes 21 days to orbit Saturn. It is 300 Km (about 180 miles) in its longest dimension".

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Nome album:MareKromium / Saturn: the "Ringed Beauty" and His Moons
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Parole chiave:Saturn's / Moons / - / Hyperion
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