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Space/Science » in reply to Amazing color image of Hyperion - it looks like it was mined

Iapetus looks mined...

Adam — 10/1/2005 4:46:51 AM (archived)

...but Hyperion looks like it has dark material underneath a lighter coloured crust. Definitely weird...

Adam

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The whole thread (6 posts)

Hyperion - Raoul - 9/28/2005 5:35:33 AM
- To explore truly alien new worlds... - LJK - 9/28/2005 1:23:04 PM
  - Reality really is stranger than fiction - LJK - 9/28/2005 4:42:53 PM
    - Hmmm... what's that orbiting Saturn with Cassini? - LJK - 9/29/2005 5:57:44 AM
      - Amazing color image of Hyperion - it looks like it was mined - LJK - 9/30/2005 6:50:06 PM
        
        Iapetus looks mined... - Adam - 10/1/2005 4:46:51 AM

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