This is one of the most "bombarded" surfaces I have seen!
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Norval
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap051003.html
The moon has a reddish appearance in natural light - I believe for this image the red light has been reduced and the other wavelengths have been slightly amplified to show more surface fluctuations.Franco Sgueglia wrote:It's weird , I dont know what kind of elaborations was applyied to this
picture but for me is not real.
And especially when they talk about the extremely low density. Hyperion "has a density so low that it might house a vast system of caverns inside."Alan wrote:It looks like a spent comet nucleus that was captured by Saturn. That would explain its chaotic orbit and dessicated appearance.
That was a NASA probe - Deep Impact. There is a Japanese probe (Hayabusa) currently hovering above the Ito-whotzit asteroid.ruidh wrote:I'm reminded of the unexpected result when the Japanese probe slammed into comet Temple 1
ta152h0 wrote:Somewhere out there in the solar system there exists an object with a chunk, the size of Hyperion, missing...just my guess
To me it seems the craters have been formed from within like volcanoes. They do not appear to be impact craters as you would see for instance on the moon. The shape of impact craters seem different to the ones on Hyperion.