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Light & Dark on Iapetus

Light and Dark on Iapetus
Published: December 17, 2004

Light & Dark on Iapetus


Saturn's outermost large moon, Iapetus, has a bright, heavily cratered icy terrain and a dark terrain, as shown in this Voyager 2 image taken on August 22, 1981.


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