On Dec. 31, 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flew by Iapetus, Saturn’s third largest moon. Iapetus was discovered by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini in 1671. NASA’s Cassini craft flew by the ...

On New Year’s Eve 2004, Cassini flew past Saturn’s intriguing moon Iapetus, capturing the four visible light images that were put together to form this global view. The scene is dominated by a dark, ...

Cassini’s landmark investigation of Saturn’s yin-yang moon Iapetus, with its bright and dark hemispheres, continues to provide insights into the nature of this intriguing body. These two views of ...

The moon with the split personality, Iapetus, presents a perplexing appearance in the latest images snapped by the Cassini spacecraft. One hemisphere of the moon is very dark, while the other is very ...

A new image taken by the Cassini spacecraft is putting the spotlight on Saturn’s split-personality moon Iapetus: half being bright, half being dark. Taken on July 3, just 3 days after the craft began ...

Extensive analyses and modeling of Cassini imaging and heat-mapping data have confirmed and extended previous ideas that migrating ice, triggered by infalling reddish dust that darkens and warms the ...

LOS ANGELES -- The international Cassini spacecraft went into safe mode this week after successfully passing over a Saturn moon that was the mysterious destination of a deep-space faring astronaut in ...

Saturn's moon, Iapetus, imaged by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in September 2007. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) We recently explored Saturn’s moon, Pan, and its unique, food-like ...

One of the first images of Iapetus returned by Cassini during the Sept. 10 flyby. Cassini completed its closest flyby of the odd moon Iapetus on Sept. 10, 2007. The spacecraft flew about 1,640 ...

Call it moonception, if you’d like. Astronomers say that a moon-with-a-moon scenario could explain some of the strange features of Iapetus, the third-largest of Saturn’s 62-known moons. Iapetus was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 31, 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flew by Iapetus, Saturn’s third largest moon. Iapetus was discovered by the Italian ...

Images returned by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft cameras during a New Year’s Eve flyby of Saturn¿s moon Iapetus (eye-APP-eh-tuss) show startling surface features that are fueling heated scientific ...