SPACE Close-up images of one of Saturn’s moons have revealed an
extraordinary landscape that looks like a giant sponge. Hyperion, Saturn’s
eighth-largest moon, was pictured from 384 miles (620km) away by the Cassini
spacecraft.
Its appearance was “unlike that of any other object imaged to date”,
researchers reported in the journal Nature.
The moon, which contains large quantities of ice, was calculated to have an
average diametre of 168 miles but its irregular shape meant that this ranged
from 118 to 226 miles. Its appearance was created by a high density of
craters.
