Cratered Cliffs of Ice on Saturn's Tethys, Oct 12/05

FieryIce · Post by **FieryIce** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:08 am

cracked during freezing

How come it does not look like cracked ice?

Empeda · Post by **Empeda** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:05 am

I suppose it would be a gradually cooling = gradual cracking - not like jsut smashing an ice cube.

I know what you're saying though - they do look more like channels than cracks, but then I'm no planetary expert.

Cathy · Post by **Cathy** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:23 am

I think the lighter stuff on the bottom of craters looks like cracked ice. About the "channels"- could'n that be originated through planetary movement? Just like the river-like gorges in glaciers on earth.

Empeda · Post by **Empeda** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:21 am

Yeah.... - though that would suggest either cooling from the INSIDE out, or cryovolcanism.

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:22 pm

As meteors impact; the cleaner ice underneath probably gets exposed. It looks almost more like packed snow.
Orin

tmulcahy · Post by **tmulcahy** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:25 pm

or it could be frost?

ta152h0 · Post by **ta152h0** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 9:02 pm

Saturn is tugging at it's children

Storm_norm · Post by **Storm_norm** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:07 am

ta152h0 wrote:Saturn is tugging at it's children

adopted children??????????????

craterchains · Post by **craterchains** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 1:15 am

How many "sling shot" type maneuvers would it take to finally get an object into a orbit like this one?

Norval

Starship Asterisk*

Cratered Cliffs of Ice on Saturn's Tethys, Oct 12/05

Cratered Cliffs of Ice on Saturn's Tethys, Oct 12/05

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