Emily Lakdawalla • Sep 06, 2007
Another approaching view of Iapetus
This morning I found four more Iapetus frames on the Cassini raw images website, captured from a third closer to Iapetus than yesterday's post. Here's that picture, which I produced the same way I described yesterday. You can see a little bit more detail on that northern impact basin, and suddenly the "belly band" of Iapetus' equatorial mountains is popping in to view on the western limb.
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