Bad Astronomy -
13 Aug 2015 22:00
The airless moons of our solar system are testaments to impacts, their surfaces peppered with craters large and small. And I do mean large. Saturn's moon Tethys is an interesting place all on its own--an icy world 1,000 kilometers across--but its captivating mien is punctuated by an ungodly vast impact basin named Odysseus. Did I say "ungodly"? It's actually quite the opposite, or at least "godslike." I explain what I mean in my biweekly article for Sen.com: "Space Odyssey." The article is subsc...
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