Saturn’s moon Iapetus reaches greatest western elongation today, now located 9.5’ west of the ringed planet. Iapetus has two vastly different hemispheres, one light and one dark. As the moon orbits ...

All I can think of when I see articles like this is that we need way more funding for robotic space exploration. Seriously, would it not be the coolest thing ever to drop a rover in a place like that?

IMAGE: When the rimwall of Iapetus’s Malun crater broke off and plunged more than five miles to the crater floor. “We see landslides everywhere in the solar system,” says Kelsi Singer, graduate ...