#iapetus
2015 June 6
Investigating Subtle Colors on Iapetus
Explanation:Cassini stared toward Saturn’s two-toned moon Iapetus (914 miles or 1,471 kilometers across) for about a week in early 2015, in a campaign motivated in part to investigate subtle color differences within the moon’s bright terrain.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.
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2015 June 2
Pluto and Outer Planet Satellites Montage
Explanation:Björn Jónsson’s montage comparing the best released New Horizons Pluto images so far to several outer planet satellites at similar resolution. This version of his image shows the bodies at approximately their correct relative albedos.
Image credit: Björn Jónsson.
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Iapetus, moon of Saturn, observed by the Cassini probe on September 10, 2007, from a distance of about 73,000 kilometers.
