House Slipper Bandanawhite

The Tao of space

Thus has been described by some scientists, the Tao spazio.Come of our moon, Iapetus the third satellite of Saturn, always keeps the same face of the planet, but thanks to the Voyager probes cassini and have finally managed to get pictures of most of his face hidden, that is the darkest part:

The following is one of the sharper images:

Researchers have concluded that we can think of Iapetus as a car running along a circuit smearing the windshield with the swarms of insects that fly him from the opposite direction. But if Iapetus is the machine, and the windshield is its darkest part, who are the insects? A dirty Iapetus is the dust that make up the largest and most extensive of the rings of Saturn, discovered only recently.