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Well vaguely it resembles a wasp next. The paper nests you sometimes
find under the eaves of the roof on your house. As if the craters were places where a lot of volatiles outgassed, blasting deeper than normal holes for craters. And if Hyperion does have empty voids inside, that might mean that Hyperion took a large hit blasting off its outer layers and heating up the insides to boil off some of the lower temperature volitale materials. Must have been many gas jets and guysers squirting gas into space at the same time just after that big collision that Hyperion took to blast its outer layers off. Hot enough to release say methane and ammonia but not water ice? These jets and guysers would carve deep holes in Hyperion's surface, and loose solid material around the craters would start to slump back into the holes once all the gas is vented, maybe like sand in an hourglass (we see the top surface of the "sand" in the upper chamber as it makes an inverted cone, as craters)?. Some "sand" filling the inner voids below the surface craters? And make it look a little like a wasp nest, with all the paper chambers as the deep inverted cone shaped craters. Hyperion must have looked like a big comet for a while.... |
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