Saturns Hyperion: Ein Mond mit seltsamem Kraterbild -Kredit: NASA, ESA, JPL, SSI, Cassini Bildgebungsteam

**Saturn’s Hyperion:** A Moon with Odd Craters Image Credit: NASA, ESA, JPL, SSI, Cassini Imaging Team

Explanation: What lies at the bottom of Hyperion’s strange craters? To help find out, the robot Cassini spacecraft that once orbited Saturn swooped past the sponge-textured moon and took images of unprecedented detail. A six-image mosaic from the 2005 pass, featured here in scientifically assigned colors, shows a remarkable world strewn with strange craters and an odd, sponge-like surface. At the bottom of most craters lies some type of unknown dark reddish material. This material appears similar to that covering part of another of Saturn’s moons, Iapetus, and might sink into the ice moon as it better absorbs warming sunlight. Hyperion is about 250 kilometers across, rotates chaotically, and has a density so low that it likely houses a vast system of caverns inside.

[https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html](https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html)

That massive crater covering the entire middle looks like that moon smashed into another one.

Beautiful. It makes me want to write a cantos about it.

It looks kind of like the inside of an empty long abandoned hornet or wasps nest with all the holes/craters on it.