Saturn's moon Hyperion. Cassini spacecraft image of the cratered edge of Hyperion. This irregular shaped moon is composed of water ice with a few impurities. It is thought that due to its low density much of its interior is empty. The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was launched in 1997 to investigate Saturn,its rings and its moons. Image obtained on 26th September 2005 by the Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera,at a distance of 32,300 kilometres from Hyperion | |
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