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    Post by Dragon Fri Nov 03, 2023 7:52 pm

    The title of weirdest moon in the solar system could go to many celestial objects — Jupiter's overly volcanic Io, Neptune's geyser-spewing Triton.

    But one of the strangest looking is Saturn's Hyperion, a pumice-stone-like irregular rock pockmarked with numerous craters.

    NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which visited the Saturn system between 2004 and 2017, also found that Hyperion was charged with a "particle beam" of static electricity flowing out into space.


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    Post by Dragon Fri Nov 03, 2023 7:52 pm

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    Post by Dragon Fri Nov 03, 2023 7:54 pm



    Hyperion is one of the largest highly irregular (non-spherical) bodies in the solar system (second to Proteus).

    The largest crater on Hyperion is approximately 121.57 km in diameter and 10.2 km deep.

    A possible explanation for the irregular morphology is that Hyperion is a fragment of a larger body that was broken by a large impact in the distant past.

    Like most of Saturn's moons, Hyperion's low density indicates that it is composed largely of water ice with only a small amount of rock.




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