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By Emily Lakdawalla

Hyperion in color and in motion

Feb. 24, 2006 | 15:21 PST | 23:21 UTC

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Here's a nifty little animation of Hyperion rotating as Cassini passes by, tossed together by an amateur from images on the raw image website. I don't know enough about the geometry of Cassini's and the moons' motions to know how much of the rotation we see is the moon's rotation on its own axis, and how much is because of Cassini's motion. In any case, I thought it was cool how the close spacing of the images in time allowed this animation to be very smooth-looking.

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Hyperion rotation animation
Cassini captured the images for this animation on Feburary 23, 2006 from a distance of about 0.5 million kilometers (0.3 million miles). Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Justin Phillips

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