What's up with those mountains on Iapetus?

That smooth unbroken continuous hill just looks weird. See for example
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedi...-details.cfm?f
eiImageID=29522

you meant

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedi...iImageID=29522



richard schumacher wrote:
That smooth unbroken continuous hill just looks weird. See for example
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedi...-details.cfm?f
eiImageID=29522

In article ,
paul v birke wrote:

you meant

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedi...tails.cfm?feiI
mageID=29522



richard schumacher wrote:
That smooth unbroken continuous hill just looks weird. See for example
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedi...-details.cfm?f
eiImageID=29522

Yes! Thanks. Anybody know how to make MT-Newswatcher not insert line
breaks?

Yes! Thanks. Anybody know how to make MT-Newswatcher not insert line
breaks?

plug it into
http://makeashorterlink.com/

ya get

Your shorter link is: http://makeashorterlink.com/?L2A82392A

Best cure I know of


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In article ,
Aardvark wrote:

Yes! Thanks. Anybody know how to make MT-Newswatcher not insert line
breaks?

plug it into
http://makeashorterlink.com/

ya get

Your shorter link is: http://makeashorterlink.com/?L2A82392A

Best cure I know of


Nah -- there's an even better cu plug it into tinyurl.com which produces:

http://tinyurl.com/42w65

That link is only a little more than half as long as your link... :-) ...and
in addition it transfers directly to the real target link instead of pausing
for a few seconds at the link transfer site....



...and if you think those links get a bit too short, pass them to http://hugeurl.com
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:-)

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On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 22:08:26 -0600, richard schumacher
wrote:

That smooth unbroken continuous hill just looks weird. See for example
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedi...-details.cfm?f
eiImageID=29522

Reminded me of the linea on Europa, even down to what looks like a
trough running down the middle...though this one is much taller and
wider than the ones found there. Also, I don't know if I would call it
a 'hill'. :-) A rough guestimate based on the distance and resolution
of Cassini's camera, this 'hill' might replace Olympus Mons as tallest
mountain in the solar system.

More interesting is the dark trails on the anti-darkside sides of
craters in the transitional terrain between the dark and bright sides.
If the dark material is created by upwelling, I can't see it creating
suspicious anti-darkside trails like that. Seems likelier that
Iapetus ran into a cloud of the stuff in the distant past.

However it does strike me as odd that the dark side appears completely
free of fresh craters. Either the dark material is very deep or
Iapetus' leading side gets showered by the material on a semi-frequent
basis, covering up any new craters. And considering that many crater
walls and central peaks are free of the dark material revealing the
bright crust undernearth, it can't be very deep.

Sounds like a good candidate for a possible Deep Impact 2.

-Drew

In article ,
richard schumacher wrote:

That smooth unbroken continuous hill just looks weird. See for example
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedi...-details.cfm?f
eiImageID=29522

Some proposed explanations:

10. The moon was actually injection-molded.
9. The hill is the remains of an ancient alien rail-gun launcher.
8. Iapetus, in a fit of sibling jealousy, has attempted to grow its own
rings.
7. Percival Lowell accidentally based his sketches on the wrong planet.
6. This is the planet from Kim Stanley Robinson's "A Short, Sharp
Shock", without the oceans.
5. The moon was tectonically separated aeons ago from Vallis Marineris.
4. This is the solar system's frenulum.
3. Ringworld deorbited here.
2. Not much, just loosening its belt after the holidays.

and..

1. That's No Moon...

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