For centuries, people wondered how the leopard got its spots. The consensus is pretty solid that evolution played a major role. But it’s only been five years since the arrival of high-resolution ...

The strangest feature on Iapetus is the equatorial ridge. What could possibly create a feature like this? To paraphrase the British geneticist J.B.S Haldane, "in my suspicion, the Universe is not only ...

Two scientists propose an explanation for the bizarre ridge belting Saturn's moon Iapetus at the equator. At one time Iapetus itself may have had a satellite, created by a giant impact with another ...

Moons in the solar system come in many different forms. Some are boulder-sized, while one is larger than the planet Mercury. Some are mixtures of rock and iron, while others hide oceans and rocky ...

The ridge was found to be about 20 kilometers (12 miles) wide and around 13 to 20 kilometers (8 to 12 miles) high—making it one of the highest mountains known in the solar system. The mountainous ...

SAN FRANCISCO --Iapetus, one of Saturn’s weirdest moons, has an enormous equatorial mountain ridge, a spiky belt that rises 12 miles above the moon’s surface. How Iapetus built that belt – the only ...

The Cassini spacecraft's flyby of Saturn's moon Iapetus has revealed a bizarre geological feature in its images: a bulging ridge at its equator. Mission scientists have started to release detailed ...

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SAN FRANCISCO – The bizarre ring of mountains encircling Saturn's moon Iapetus may be the fractured remains of an icy sub-moon. Iapetus's spiky belt, which stretches all the way around the moon's ...

The mountainous ridge that circles the equator on the Saturnian moon Iapetus is both weird and spectacular. Discovered in 2004, the icy rim is as much as 20km high and runs fully 1,600km from end to ...

For centuries, people wondered how the leopard got its spots. The consensus is pretty solid that evolution played a major role. But it's only been five years since the arrival of high-resolution ...