Saturn's Coolest #3: Hyperion

[eyelessgame]

Weird enough for you yet?

Hyperion is almost as big as Mimas - which has enough gravity to force itself into a sphere - yet is not remotely spherical - instead, it looks like this.

Comments

[tavella]

That picture of Hyperion always slightly creeps me out. It looks like a wasps nest, and I expect _things_ to start creeping out.

[eyelessgame]

I love the look of Hyperion - it's like nothing else in the Solar System. To me it looks like a sponge - which might not be far from the truth. I love those steep crater walls and the shearing off of them - it makes me think of pieces sliding/collapsing inward, slumping in to fill some of those huge voids within. Would love to know what deep radar would tell us - I want a 3D map of that moon...

[barking_iguana]

To me, it looks like coral or a geode.

[jayfurr]

I've always been a big fan of Phoebe's appearance, myself. :)