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Cassini Shows Close Up of Iapetus

Posted by michael on from the looks-rocky dept.

dazza101 writes "The Cassini spacecraft passed within 72,000 kms of the Saturn moon Iapetus yesterday, taking a series of spectacular images of this intriguing moons rugged surface. An excellent prelude to what promises to be one of the major stories of the new year, the plunge of the Huygens probe into Titan's atmosphere on January 24."

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  1. Re:If that's no space station, what is it? by IO+ERROR · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    We should only be concerned about Europa.

    Europa? But I'm an American!

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    How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
  2. Re:Cassini Hyugens by metlin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, talk of heavenly bodies of the wrong kind :-(

  3. Harry Caray by T3dB3rg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Would you eat Mimas if it were made of spare ribs? It's a simple question.