Saturn's Hyperion: A Moon with Odd Craters
Hyperion is an extremely unique, some might say the most unique moon, that has ever been discovered. It is mathematically the most eccentric object that orbits another object. Robot Cassini spacecraft helped us gather more information on the object recently, including this picture. Astronomers 600 years ago would have never thought anything like this could have possibly existed, which I find interesting. Most planets are mostly spherical, however, it's objects like Hyperion that really get me questioning, "what's really out there?" There seems to be no natural governing this moon, so why should there be a natural order governing all other moons?
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