Iapetus, Saturn's moon, is visible near Saturn in the early morning sky. Saturn is easily located as the brightest point of light in the Circlet of Pisces. Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is also ...

Iapetus, a moon of Saturn, reaches its greatest western elongation, resulting in its brightest observable appearance from Earth due to its lighter hemisphere being oriented towards the observer.

More than 60 moons are known to orbit Saturn, but few of them are as visually striking as Iapetus. Named formally after the Greek mythological Titan, Iapetus is sometimes referred to as the “painted,” ...

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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 ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is set to cap off 2004 with an encounter of Saturn’s ying-yang moon Iapetus (eye-APP-eh-tuss) on New Year’s Eve. This is Cassini’s closest pass yet by one of Saturn’s smaller ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – Iapetus is often called Saturn’s most bizarre moon, due to its starkly contrasting hemispheres – one black as coal, the other white as snow. Images taken by the Cassini-Huygens ...