Thursday, 16 October 2014

Cassini Caught in Hyperion's Particle Beam

Cassini obtained this false-color view of Saturn's moon Hyperion



New analysis indicates that during a 2005 flyby, NASA's Cassini spacecraft was zapped by a beam of electrons coming from the surface of Saturn's moon Hyperion.










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