Phoebe Pictures Released

EccentricAnomaly writes "NASA has begun to release some pictures from Cassini's Phoebe flyby last Friday. If you look at the thumbnail of this image or if you look at the right of these images, you can see a group of craters that look like a skull just south of the equator and something that looks like George Washington (wearing his wig) near the north pole. Come up with some good names for features, and you can submit your ideas to the IAU. There's a process for naming a newly discovered crater, fossa, or sulcus. By the way, the naming convention for Phoebe is people associated with Phoebe or the Greek islands."

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Re:Oh no, not more features that look like faces!

[Zocalo]

Not yet... The real wackos will be eagerly waiting for the pictures of monolith shaped objects, ideally on Iapetus.

Not only is Iapetus one of the moons actually discovered by Cassini (in 1671), but it has one black hemisphere and one white hemisphere. It is thought that dust accumulated from Pheobe is responsible for the coating on the darker hemisphere. Intriguingly, there is also a small black dot in the middle of the white hemisphere, exactly as described in 2001 (the book, not the film)...