Mold marks
Dec. 27th, 2004 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmcirvinTake a look at this crummy-looking picture of Iapetus:
This is a picture from the Cassini raw image archive, taken just yesterday, that I downloaded in JPEG form, then brightened excessively and unsharp-masked to hell and gone. The curious thing about it is that, besides the gigantic craters that Cassini found earlier, Iapetus seems to have a tremendous, absolutely straight mountain range on it that runs right down the axis of the dark area like a seam on a badly made plastic toy. The thing's so tall it's poking right out along the horizon.
I'm not sure about the orientation of this image, but I wonder if it connects to the line of white mountains pictured here. Yeah, I think it does! In that color picture you can see the faint streak continuing off to the right... that straight ridge goes at least halfway around the moon!
Let me just say, what the hell?
This is a picture from the Cassini raw image archive, taken just yesterday, that I downloaded in JPEG form, then brightened excessively and unsharp-masked to hell and gone. The curious thing about it is that, besides the gigantic craters that Cassini found earlier, Iapetus seems to have a tremendous, absolutely straight mountain range on it that runs right down the axis of the dark area like a seam on a badly made plastic toy. The thing's so tall it's poking right out along the horizon.
I'm not sure about the orientation of this image, but I wonder if it connects to the line of white mountains pictured here. Yeah, I think it does! In that color picture you can see the faint streak continuing off to the right... that straight ridge goes at least halfway around the moon!
Let me just say, what the hell?