15 October 2007 38 views No Comment Print This Post  Email This Post

Saturn’s moon Iapetus has recently come under some scrutiny from the scientific community. New images from the Cassini-Huygens probe seem to show dark splotches of organic mater on the surface of the moon. Unfortunately the article in question seems to be not written by somebody with a scientific background and gives little detail or scientific explanation of these splotches. The article discusses other interesting features of Saturn’s moons.

On the bright side, digging around did turn up the site that holds all the raw images taken from Cassini-Huygens spacecraft all nearly organized and searchable.

[via the Guardian]