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, ...

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 ...

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 ...