Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Space Video of the Day - 071023

The Cassini mission has been sending back some spectacular pictures of Saturn's neighborhood. Today's space video was taken by Cassini as it flew by Saturn's moon Iapetus. The mountain ridge in the center of the moon is over ten kilometers tall (Mount Everest is 8.85 kilometers tall), so these are some of the tallest mountains in the solar system; only Maxwell Montes on Venus and Olympus Mons on Mars are taller.


Space Video of the Day Archive

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