🌔🪐 #Space near #Earth is far more varied than just craters and dust. Planetary scientists describe #moons that defy expectations, like #Iapetus with its walnut-like ridge and #Triton’s backward orbit.

👉 https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/solar-system/weirdest-moons-solar-system

#astronomy #solarsystem #geology #neptune #uranus #saturn #jupiter #hyperion #io #science #exploration

In Greek mythology, the Twelve Titans were the powerful children of #Gaia and #Uranus. They ruled before the Olympian gods and shaped the early world.

The Six Male Titans: #Oceanus, #Coeus, #Crius, #Hyperion, #Iapetus, and #Cronus.
The Six Female Titans: #Theia, #Rhea, #Themis, #Mnemosyne, #Phoebe, and #Tethys.

They reigned during the Golden Age, until #Zeus and the #Olympians rose up, defeated them, and took control of the cosmos.

#religion #greek #hellenic #mythology #myths #myth

Everything, Edzell, All At Once: when Continents Collide

A beautiful outcrop of oceanic crust - greenstone, phyllites, serpentinites and jasper - at the Rocks of Solitude in the Highland Boundary Fault zone, Edzell.

Prints, cards and more: https://shiny.photo/photo/Everything--Edzell--All-At-Once-2d44a2e09d498f80f809f9ff1e58d7b2

#iapetus #geology #photography #closeup #scotland #nature #CaledonianOrogeny #HighlandBoundaryFault #HBF

SpaceShipTember 2025

Day 20 - Ruins

"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand on Iapetus. . . . Near them, on the regolith,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies..."

Saturn's rings are 10-100 million years old.
The Chicxulub impact was 66 million years ago...

"Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

#lego #space #SST25 #shiptember #spaceshiptember #iapetus #ozymandias

For @DXMacGuffin's #ProgTuesday:

#AnAbstractIllusion: No Dreams Beyond Empty Horizons

https://song.link/28wpw2tzv9qhq

#AtmosphericMelodicProgressiveDeathMetal

FFO #FiresInTheDistance #Iapetus #Kardashev

Has it ever happened to you when reading a book, you thought "hey, I heard that passage in a song!"?

"After a while someone asked the expriest if it were true that at one time there had been two moons in the sky and the expriest eyed the false moon above them and said that it may well have been so. But certainly the wise high God in his dismay at the proliferation of lunacy on this earth must have wetted a thumb and leaned down out of the abyss and pinched it hissing into extinction."

#iapetus: The Star of Collapse

https://song.link/2crnj3q5p77m6

#MelodicDeathMetal #ProgressiveDeathMetal

FFO #AtThePlates #EternalStorm #IrreversibleMechanism

#NowPlaying

Mars2020 - Sol 1401 - Watson - Decorrelated Color 🪐

#cassini #iapetus #mars #mars2020 #navcam #navleft #perseverance #rover

⏩ 3 new pictures from @kevinmgill https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=3&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20250129110140

#TuneTuesday has the theme, #2024MusicDiscoveries. Favourite music discovered this year, not necessarily released this year.

Here we have IAPETUS, who I discovered through a toot from @yourfutureex. I love their two albums (The Long Road Home & The Body Cosmic), which are both available on Bandcamp as "pay what you want".

I Contain Multitudes (track) by IAPETUS, on bandcamp here:
https://iapetus1.bandcamp.com/track/i-contain-multitudes

#Music #Metal #ProgressiveDeathMetal #IAPETUS

Mars2020 - Sol 1360 - NavLeft 🪐

#cassini #curiosity #enceladus #iapetus #mars #mars2020 #mastcam #msl

⏩ 8 new pictures from @kevinmgill https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=8&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20241218110311