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AbleEndangered
I've been enjoying your Strange moon series!
A couple of my Faves are:
The one that orbits Neptune backwards, Triton
and the Walnut Moon, Lapetus
and the small body Ceres deserves a gander in your series. Could be a lost moon.
Great Work!
adding:
very cool!
Those are some serious dents! Planets need good insurance!!edit on 20-9-2013 by AbleEndangered because: addition
LadyGreenEyes
reply to post by eriktheawful
Iapetus is the one that has fascinated me for some time now. Talk about a "death star" moon! I saw one picture, with the light around it, that showed flat edges. You can see it here - NASA link
...and here is the picture -
Strange moon, that one.
eriktheawful
Unfortunately the best images we have of Ceres right now is this from Hubble:
wildespace
eriktheawful
Unfortunately the best images we have of Ceres right now is this from Hubble:
ESO's VLT telescopes are almost 3.5 times larger than the Hubble (at 8.2 meters each). Although their images are taken through the atmosphere, I think VLT could produce a better image of Ceres, would you agree?
Glassbender777
AMAZING pics, Im somewhat taken back by the resolution of the moon.
Strange that each of the moons of saturn have a large impact crater in almost the the same position on each moon, Hmm
SasquatchHunter
reply to post by eriktheawful
You would think Earth would feature the largest impact craters being the largest confirmed solid surface planet in our solar system.
HanzHenry
SasquatchHunter
reply to post by eriktheawful
You would think Earth would feature the largest impact craters being the largest confirmed solid surface planet in our solar system.
I am unsure if I am stupid, ignorant, confused, or you were not complete in that statement.
Can you elaborate?
SasquatchHunter
HanzHenry
SasquatchHunter
reply to post by eriktheawful
You would think Earth would feature the largest impact craters being the largest confirmed solid surface planet in our solar system.
I am unsure if I am stupid, ignorant, confused, or you were not complete in that statement.
Can you elaborate?
I don't have enough information to answer your question, an attempt would be pure speculation I'm afraid. Can you be more specific with your question regarding my initial post. Thanks.
HanzHenry
SasquatchHunter
HanzHenry
SasquatchHunter
reply to post by eriktheawful
You would think Earth would feature the largest impact craters being the largest confirmed solid surface planet in our solar system.
I am unsure if I am stupid, ignorant, confused, or you were not complete in that statement.
Can you elaborate?
I don't have enough information to answer your question, an attempt would be pure speculation I'm afraid. Can you be more specific with your question regarding my initial post. Thanks.
Earth largest surface area in the solar system..
What do you mean?
symptomoftheuniverse
Excellent threads,very interesting indeed. Ceres seems to have an atmosphere?
P.s. is there any other moons which we have few if any images?
SasquatchHunter
HanzHenry
SasquatchHunter
HanzHenry
SasquatchHunter
reply to post by eriktheawful
You would think Earth would feature the largest impact craters being the largest confirmed solid surface planet in our solar system.
I am unsure if I am stupid, ignorant, confused, or you were not complete in that statement.
Can you elaborate?
I don't have enough information to answer your question, an attempt would be pure speculation I'm afraid. Can you be more specific with your question regarding my initial post. Thanks.
Earth largest surface area in the solar system..
What do you mean?
Earths largest *confirmed *solid surface area is what I said.
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are all gas giants. Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars all have solid surfaces of those 4 Earth being the largest one.