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Stunning Close-up of Saturn's Moon, Pan, Reveals a Space Empanada (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit quotes a report from Science Magazine: Astronomers have long known that Pan, one of Saturn's innermost moons, has an odd look. Based on images taken from a distance, researchers have said it looks like a walnut or a flying saucer. But now, NASA's Cassini probe has delivered stunning close-ups of the 35-kilometer-wide icy moon, and it might be better called a pan-fried dumpling or an empanada. Pan orbits Saturn in a gap in the planet's rings and pulls material from them, so the ridge around it likely started accumulating soon after the moon formed, researchers say. If material in the ridge is still loose, rather than somehow fused together, the ridge can maintain its steepness only because the moon's gravity is so low. The latest pictures were obtained as Cassini conducts its final (and riskiest) flybys past Saturn's moons and rings before it blazes into the planet's atmosphere later this year.
You can't call something an empanada unless you're Hispanic!!!
More like ravioli. :-9
A little baby Saturn copying its mother (or is it big sister?)
Why does this picture look like a very basic computer simulation of a lump of rock, and nothing at all like a photo. How was the picture actually taken?
There's a word, you don't know what it means, you're asking what it means, but you can't even transcribe the letters correctly. Talk about fail.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Hilarious bud. Put that in your tight five. ;)
Why would an AC be trying to keep track of mod points?
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
What the fuck is an empanade.
Some kind of cute bear that hugs you when you're down?
Wanna buy a shirt?
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OK, that's no moon. For reals. That looks like it is the space dwelling entity from the Star Trek Next Generation episode Galaxy's Child.
...not Mexican. Thank you.
Cornish Pasty is the English version. It's a Space Cornish Pasty.
Who ordered that?
"Homer Jay Simpson reporting for duty sir; I just received the report"
Can I get a couple of Enceladus to go with that?
There's a word, you don't know what it means, you're asking what it means, but you can't even transcribe the letters correctly. Talk about fail.
I was going to tell AC it was kinda like a perogi. But that's not speaking American either.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Cornish Pasty is the English version. It's a Space Cornish Pasty.
So strippers wear them on their nipples?
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
It looks like a flying saucer that iced over.
Sorry to be pedantic, but doesn't it look much more like a ravioli than an empanada or a gyoza?
Looks like a Mexican's head. This is probably where Trump wants to send illegal aliens - so they can be just aliens.
Well they do seem to have a successful wall project...
...welcome our space empanada overlords.
That was corny.
Man, those space cabbages get big!
/me titters