Station Cassini passed new images of Saturn's moon

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Spacecraft Earth scattered across the solar system. Now people get more information on near space than ever before. In particular, it continues to transmit pictures space probe Cassini, studying Saturn and its moons.

This time studied Hyperion station - one of Saturn's moons. The photos were taken on May 31 from a distance of 34,000 kilometers.

The photographs show that the structure of Hyperion rather unusual - on the surface of a large number of craters with very sharp edges. Most of all it looks like a sea sponge. According to experts, Hyperion is composed mostly of water ice. And about 40% of the volume of the object - the void.

It is worth noting that during his work (since 1997) Cassini passed a lot of interesting information on the Earth. The station showed rings of the giant planet, its moons, and some other nearby objects.

By the way, last year the station photographed the clouds on Titan, from the photo and then made an animation sequence, where the dynamics of the motion of gas layers of the atmosphere of Titan can be clearly seen.

Back in 2004, when the station Cassini only the study of Saturn and Titan, scientists have discovered that the north pole of Titan's quite a lot of clouds. It was the local "late summer." Clouds have been observed until the spring, in the same northern hemisphere. Then, in 2010, was discovered a massive storm on Saturn, and the clouds are far fewer, they are almost gone.

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