NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is set to cap off 2004 with an encounter of Saturn’s ying-yang moon Iapetus (eye-APP-eh-tuss) on New Year’s Eve. This is Cassini’s closest pass yet by one of Saturn’s smaller ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 31, 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flew by Iapetus, Saturn’s third largest moon.Iapetus was discovered by the Italian ...

Images returned by NASA's Cassini spacecraft cameras during a New Year's Eve flyby of Saturn's moon Iapetus (eye-APP-eh- tuss) show startling surface features that are fueling heated ...

This map of the surface of Saturn’s moon Iapetus (1,436 kilometers, or 892 miles across), generated from images taken by NASA’s Voyager spacecraft, illustrates the imaging coverage planned during ...

Images returned by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft cameras during a New Year’s Eve flyby of Saturn¿s moon Iapetus (eye-APP-eh-tuss) show startling surface features that are fueling heated scientific ...

This oblique view of Saturn’s moon Iapetus from high latitude shows how the dark, heavily cratered terrain of Cassini Regio transitions to a bright, icy terrain at high latitudes. In this mosaic of ...

Saturn's moon, Iapetus, imaged by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in September 2007. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) We recently explored Saturn’s moon, Pan, and its unique, food-like ...

Cassini scientists are poring through hundreds of images returned from the 10 September fly-by of Saturn's two-toned moon Iapetus. The pictures show the moon's yin and yang - a white hemisphere ...