Huge Mountain Ridge Found on Saturn Moon
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A New Year’s Eve flyby of Saturn’s small moon Iapetus by the Cassini spacecraft has revealed a huge ridge along the moon’s midsection. In places the mountains reach 12 miles, more than twice as tall as Mt. Everest. The mountains are almost as tall as Olympus Mons on Mars, although Iapetus is one-fifth the size.
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