Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Cassini spots huge "spear" on Saturn moon

The first close-up images of Saturn's moon Tethys have been sent to Earth from the Cassini spacecraft, which flew past the moon on Saturday. As well as the expected craters and chasms, one image reveals a peculiar, spear-shaped feature.


If you enlarge the image and look closely, you can make out several narrow linear features like the hilt of the so-called "spear."

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

the saturnian system is a weird place

Carol Maltby said...

That's Mr. Crocodile's head, with his little hat. His spine is very straight because his governess always insisted that her charges have impeccable posture.

Fault line that filled in with a harder rock, then the softer rock around it eroded away leaving it in relief?

Mac said...

Carol--

They're *obviously* hyperdimensional vacuum trains.

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