Cassini - Iapetus flyby

Sept. 10 2007 spacecraft Cassini made a close flyby of Iapetus, one of Saturn's moons. This video was compiled using the raw images sent by Cassini.

All images by Cassini Imaging Team
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.

See also a video of Cassini's Enceladus flyby:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5PqLP...


About Iapetus: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/mo...

About Cassini: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index...

Cassini's images: http://ciclops.org/index.php?js=1
and: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia...

Music: Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy

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  Science & Technology

[phdhbtdsmmm]

That's no moon... it's a Space Station.

[Dizzi Booker]

how strange and beautiful, so full of mystery

[Vlad Sporea]

BOOOOOOOO clair de lune how obvious.

[Simon Garrett]

thanks for this lovely choice of music too

[abhijeet chandratre]

Probably you should've been in NASA! Those guys are really missing the 'HD' stuff, now I feel :P

[Zoroasterrrr]

bullshit, wrap it in gold and shove an energizer bunny up its butt. oh so you cant take hd photos in space, im calling bullshit

[mnchris1000]

To see all this and know we are stuck on this rock...

[MoussartProds]

Your HD camera won't last 5 seconds in space, stupid.

[intrptr]

It looks like a moldy orange that has been hit by a shotgun blast and then allowed to mold some more. Impressive impact crater on dayside. Rest of surface appears to be blasted by some titanic forces... prolly that impactor. Shockwaves must have gone round and round reflecting off each other and bouncing back and forth again and again to create that ridge line , maybe? Impressive, ancient, hostile, frozen, tortured, lifeless... nugget in space. Insert breathless noises.... thankyou

[Zoroasterrrr]

The 50's-90's cameras sucked. THUMBS UP IF YOU HAVE A HD CAMERA!!!! Look at the cameras we can buy today, and you show me this crap?

[artofnick]

if you want to see the real death star moon look up Mimas on Google images.

[biose7en]

Hermoso