BOUNDLESS EXPANSE 3D

Iapetus

MOON · orbits Saturn
Iapetus
AI illustration of the real object
SIZE 1,469 kmSPECIAL one black side, one white side

The two faced moon. One half of Iapetus is as dark as coal, the other as bright as snow, and for centuries nobody knew why. Dark dust from the outer moon Phoebe drifts inward and coats Iapetus' leading side, and the warmed dark areas then lose their ice. As a bonus mystery, a ridge of mountains runs exactly along its equator, like a walnut's seam.

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