The Strangest Moon in the Solar System...

[Rockhopper]

Iapetus, discovered by Giovanni Cassini in th 17th century, it is an enigma.

It's large orbit is on an angle to the plane of Saturn it's host planet unlike all the other moons there.




Source.

Tim.

[Agartha]

How unusual.... the hemisphere that faces Saturn is a lot darker than the other one and they don't know or understand how. It also has a density only 1.2 times that of liquid water.. I'd sooo love to see that!!

[Rockhopper]

Dirty snowball Ags? Who knows?

Tim.

[Agartha]

Well, it's mostly ice... yes, if you look at the Nasa pic it does look like a dirty snowball!!

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