http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedi.../N00042786.jpg

If anything it is one of the solar systems most bizarre looking moons.

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^^ Let us pray for the spirit of Richard Hoagland to leave this man

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It certainly has a nice belt and shiny parts!

How's that moon called that has totally different inner and outer hemispheres? (inner = facing the planet it's orbiting).
I don't mean our Moon, htough it has quite some differences between the inner and outer hemispheres as well .

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What is "No" ? Thanks, Alex- I'd like to change subjects now and try funny words that end in F-A-R-T for $400 please.

"My God, Its full of Stars"

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Carl Sagan may have seen a pale blue dot, but I see a sapphire.- Doug Phillips, Discovering Alabama.

Clear skies Maksutov.

Ooo, ooo! I know this one!

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Thats no moon. Its a space station.

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Care to elaborate? It's a pretty strong claim to make so offhand.

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Those be Jedi words, baby. Obi-wan decides to be anti-climactic and says it at a critical moment it in this lil' movie:
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Ah, a Star Wars joke... If it was meant that way, Damburger,

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Shame on you - go home and watch Star Wars back to back 10 times for pennance.

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"I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive." - Carl Sagan, 1995

am I serious???? am I???

new theory...it's a giant space walnut put there millenia ago by hyper intelligent squirrels....

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedi...6166-br500.jpg

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Quite good evidence for the HIS theory, I say!

Now does anyone know which moon I was referring to with my excellent description a few posts up?

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But I thought that was Mimas?

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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident." Arthur Schopenhauer - renowned 19th Century German philosopher.

They were talking about this one morning on local talk radio. I got the impression that the hosts were surfing the net, found Hoagland's site, and picked out Iaptus to talk about, but did absolutely no other research. They fell completely for the whole Hoagland interpretation. I was fuming, but did not have my cell phone at the time.

Edited to add link.

Fine with me--now to tell them its full of gold and to support heavy-lift.

Waitaminute... waitaminute! The stars appearing to be in the moon...

If stars on our Moon can't be seen, but stars can be seen not only around but also on this moon, and the ground is even illuminated but much darker, so the stars should be darker and we shouldn't see any at all, and should...

Whew! Almost thought myself into a tizzy there for a second!

Seriously, to answer another question concerning hemispherical difference, I believe (but can't say for sure) that the gravitational field dynamics for moon period of rotation matches it's period of orbit (tidal locked) will mean that it will encounter significantly different bombardment rates for meteors stricking the surface turned towards the planet than the surface turned away.

They're not Stars, they're just noise, remember the RAW data is uncleansed. I've been checking those pics for the last 3 days, amazing shots! I had been waiting on this Iapetus flyby for quite sometime now

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Mimas is from A New Hope. Ipateus is the new build from Return of the Jedi.

"Stabilize your rear deflectors... Watch for enemy fighters!"

ToSeeked....

You can always count on Mr. Hoagland in this regard....

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