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Published online 30 September 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050926-15
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Spongy moon gets a close-up
Cassini fly-by reveals strange features of Hyperion.
It looks like the oddest moon in the Solar System. Saturn's satellite Hyperion has just been buzzed by the Cassini probe, and the stunning pictures that it sent to Earth earlier this week are beginning to reveal the moon's turbulent history.
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