|
Collection:
|
|
NASA Cassini-Huygens Collection
Collection
NASA Cassini-Huygens Collection
Collection
|
|
Title:
|
|
Pummeled Hyperion
Title
Pummeled Hyperion
Title
|
|
Description:
|
|
Saturn's irregularly shaped moon Hyperion is completely covered with large pits from which much of its material has been blasted by impacts, never to return.
description
Saturn's irregularly shaped moon Hyperion is completely covered with large pits from which much of its material has been blasted by impacts, never to return.
Description
|
|
Full Description:
|
Saturn's irregularly shaped moon Hyperion is completely covered with large pits from which much of its material has been blasted by impacts, never to return. The moon's surface gravity is so low that crater-ejected material often escapes Hyperion entirely. Hyperion is 280 kilometers (174 miles) across on average. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Oct. 21, 2007. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 151,000 kilometers (94,000 miles) from Hyperion and at a Sun-Hyperion-spacecr aft, or phase, angle of 111 degrees. Image scale is 906 meters (0.6 mile) per pixel. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.n…. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Full_Description
Saturn's irregularly shaped moon Hyperion is completely covered with large pits from which much of its material has been blasted by impacts, never to return. The moon's surface gravity is so low that crater-ejected material often escapes Hyperion entirely. Hyperion is 280 kilometers (174 miles) across on average. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Oct. 21, 2007. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 151,000 kilometers (94,000 miles) from Hyperion and at a Sun-Hyperion-spacecr aft, or phase, angle of 111 degrees. Image scale is 906 meters (0.6 mile) per pixel. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.n…. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Full Description
|
|
Date:
|
|
December 11, 2007
Date
December 11, 2007
Date
|
|
Keywords:
|
|
Hyperion
keywords
Hyperion
Keywords
|
|
Keywords:
|
|
impacts
keywords
impacts
Keywords
|
|
Keywords:
|
|
pits
|
|
facet_what:
|
|
Saturn
facet_what
Saturn
facet_what
|
|
facet_what:
|
|
Cassini
facet_what
Cassini
facet_what
|
|
facet_what:
|
|
Cassini-Huygens
facet_what
Cassini-Huygens
facet_what
|
|
facet_what:
|
|
Huygens Probe
facet_what
Huygens Probe
facet_what
|
|
facet_what:
|
|
Moon
facet_what
Moon
facet_what
|
|
facet_what:
|
|
Cassini Orbiter
facet_what
Cassini Orbiter
facet_what
|
|
facet_what:
|
|
Crater
facet_what
Crater
facet_what
|
|
facet_what:
|
|
Sun
facet_what
Sun
facet_what
|
|
facet_what:
|
|
Visible Light
facet_what
Visible Light
facet_what
|
|
facet_where:
|
|
Saturn
facet_where
Saturn
facet_where
|
|
facet_where:
|
|
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
facet_where
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
facet_where
|
|
facet_where:
|
|
California
facet_where
California
facet_where
|
|
facet_where:
|
|
Washington
facet_where
Washington
facet_where
|
|
facet_where:
|
|
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_where
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_where
|
|
facet_where:
|
|
Washington, D.C.
facet_where
Washington, D.C.
facet_where
|
|
facet_when:
|
|
December 11, 2007
facet_when
December 11, 2007
facet_when
|
|
facet_when_year:
|
|
2007
facet_when_year
2007
facet_when_year
|
|
UID:
|
|
SPD-SATRN-2871
|
|
original url:
|
original_url
original url
|
