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SPACE Close-up images of one of Saturn’s moons have revealed an extraordinary landscape that looks like a giant sponge. Hyperion, Saturn’s eighth-largest moon, was pictured from 384 miles (620km) away by the Cassini spacecraft.
Its appearance was “unlike that of any other object imaged to date”, researchers reported in the journal Nature.
The moon, which contains large quantities of ice, was calculated to have an average diametre of 168 miles but its irregular shape meant that this ranged from 118 to 226 miles. Its appearance was created by a high density of craters.

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This moon needs to come out of the shadows, beauty is only skin deep.
Phil, Epsom,
MAYBE THIS MOON WAS ONCE
"UNDER THE (CARIBBEAN) SEA"!
That looks EXACTLY like pieces of coral that I have seen on beaches in the Caribbean!
It is incredible that a moon would have such a POURUS appearance. Amazing!
IS SOMEONE PULLING OUR LEGS? ? ?
Garth Rex, Glen Ellyn, USA
Tim - There's no "e" in potato
Tony McDonald, Scunthorpe, UK
You might hit Earth on the way to Venus!
Michael MacKenzie, Bolton, Lancs UK
Looks like my kidney stone
Foghorn Leghorn, Rhode Island, Kentshire
The more ice and the more craters, the easier it will be to settle there, for you would have, essential for living, water and places where you could build your habitation.
Jan-Matthis Weng, Luetjenburg,
It's about time. This should have been a view from 20-30 years ago. We went to the moon with manned landings in 1969-1972 and then got cheap and decided to make a reusable vehicle, the space joke, err shuttle. I had great hopes in 1969, but now I am afraid politics is making NASA a once great shadow of itself.
If the Saturn V had been redesigned only a little to use liquid oxygen and strapped on 4 solid rocket boosters like the shuttle, just one launched would probably put as much in orbit as a dozen or more shuttle flights. I have to laugh at president Bush and his 'vision' of putting a man on the moon by 2020. Where was he in 1969 when it actually was done?
Bill Baka, Marysville, Ca
This is news? I saw this photo last year.
Jeff, Nottingham,
Think how many crisps we can get out of this potatoe
Tim mcNeill, Sheffield, UK
Does it contain enough ice to make a substantial difference to Venus if it could be shifted onto a course that would eventually move it close to Venus - in a decaying orbit round it?
Herbert Thornton, Victoria, Canada
I like turtles
Zombie Kid, Portland, Oregon
Me too. I want one.
Tim, Brighton,
"Ooops! Sorry! Wrong photo! That really IS a sponge!"
Garth Rex, Glendale Heights, USA
I like it. It looks nice.
David Dinwoodie, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey
`diametre'?
Dave Norman, Charles Town, West Virginia, U. S. A.
i wish there were a larger image to look at! have they done any tests on the moons density? IT looks like a giant chunk of pumice :)
Joe Barone, Franklin Park, Il
I say get out of there before the guy who's about to take the bath comes back
Rick Weston, Salisbury, UK
Surely it looks like a cheese
Jonathan, Wadhurst, UK
@ FAH KOO
So we might find new ways to pull people like youself out of the stone age
Little Tom, Adelaide, Australia
looks like a big brilo pad
chris cook, princeton, in
I can see Mother Theresa's face on there, uncanny!!!
Scotty Stevenson, los angeles, usa
Incredible. I feel so inadequate. Who knew that Saturn had such an enormous....sponge.
Forrest, Orlando, USA/Florida
why are these people getting paid to look at rocks?
FAH KOO, Blarg, Afghanistan
Yeah, i love the picture they included!
Rhylan, boomtown,