Visible in the early-morning sky today, Saturn’s two-toned moon Iapetus reaches superior conjunction just 1.4′ due south of Saturn. The proximity makes the now-11th-magnitude moon easier to find, as ...

Saturn's two-faced moon Iapetus reaches its greatest western elongation today. At western elongation, the moon's lighter hemisphere is turned toward Earth, making it brightest and easiest to view ...

Named formally after the Greek mythological Titan, Iapetus is sometimes referred to as the “painted,” or “yin-yang” moon, due to puzzling variations in its surface composition.

Iapetus: the facts. Discovered by Giovanni Domenico Cassini. Date of discovery 1671. Diameter 892 miles (1436 km) ... In Greek mythology Iapetus was a Titan, the son of Uranus, ...

Nearly every particle larger than 10 microns across will end up on Iapetus, the team concludes. Smaller particles that miss Iapetus strike the Saturn moons Titan and Hyperion.

Iapetus: Discovered on October 25, 1671, by Giovanni Cassini, ... Titan, passes in front of the planet and its rings in this true-color snapshot from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

The dark material on Iapetus is thought to have hailed from elsewhere, notes Radebaugh, who was not involved in the research. So it’s plausible that Titan’s sands could have otherworldly ...

If you look closely, you can see what is likely Saturn's large moon Titan, which looks like a tiny, faint star right next to Saturn. Saturn and one of its moons glow beside the waning crescent ...

Saturn’s two-faced moon Iapetus reaches its greatest western elongation today. At western elongation, the moon’s lighter hemisphere is turned toward Earth, making it brightest and easiest to ...