Showing posts with label An Unusually Smooth Surface on Saturns Calypso. Show all posts
Showing posts with label An Unusually Smooth Surface on Saturns Calypso. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
An Unusually Smooth Surface on Saturns Calypso
Why is this moon of Saturn so smooth? This past weekend, humanity's Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft passed as close to Saturn's small moon Calypso as it ever has, and imaged the small moon in unprecedented detail. Pictured above is an early return, raw, unprocessed image of the 20-km long irregularly shaped moon. Like its sister moon Telesto and the shepherd moon Pandora, Calypso has shown
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