Cassini eyes Iapetus

A new image taken by the Cassini spacecraft is putting the spotlight on Saturn’s split-personality moon Iapetus: half being bright, half being dark. Taken on July 3, just 3 days after the craft began its Saturn tour, the Cassini picture is the first image of the moon taken from space since the early 1980s.

PUZZLING MOON. Light and dark regions on Saturn’s moon Iapetus, as seen by the Cassini spacecraft.