Alessio Frino - Giapeto (Original Mix)

did you know that, "Giapeto", (Iapetus, occasionally Japetus, is the third-largest natural satellite of Saturn, and eleventh-largest in the Solar System), Compared to Earth's moon, its radius is about 42% and its density is about 32.5%, resulting in a mass of about 2.5% of Earth's moon. Iapetus is best known, for its dramatic two-tone coloration, but discoveries by the Cassini mission, in 2007 *allegedly*, have revealed several other, unusual physical characteristics, such as an equatorial ridge that runs about halfway around the moon. Iapetus also has a giant ridge along its equator: some 10 kilometres higher than the rest of the rocky, icy world. It isn’t rotating quickly enough to explain this, and the surface of Iapetus appears to be many billions of years old, so it likely isn’t recently coalesced debris, either. While many ideas abound concerning what causes this ridge, here's mine, it's not natural to it's parent planet Saturn, if it were, it would have its tidal bulges, (the ridge). on the same orientation as the rest of the equatorial planes, therefore it was captured by Saturn, as it's strange tilt is a clear hint at the answer, and the delineation between light-and-dark hemispheres ,doesn't perfectly coincide with Iapetus' orbit. another blatant clue There are many ways in which Iapetus is unusual for our Solar System, and there are quite a few mysteries about it that haven’t been answered. Iapetus, you see, is the outermost large moon of Saturn, orbiting twice as far out as any of Saturn's other moons. What appears to be some type of dark debris that collected on the leading side, an effect similar to bugs on a windshield would be an awfully bizarre explanation, since it's well outside of the other major players in Saturn's system, including Saturn's rings. In fact, none of Saturn's other moons display this feature; Iapetus is alone. Even outer to Iapetus lies Phoebe, a smaller moon that's most likely a captured object from the Kuiper belt. Unlike all of Saturn's other moons, Phoebe orbits in the opposite direction, is far more distant, and most importantly, is very, very dark. It's darker, intrinsically, than all the other major moons found orbiting Saturn, and is comparable to the dark portions of Iapetus. In addition, Phoebe has been emitting a steady stream of particles for a very long time, it's created its own ring around Saturn, larger, more diffuse and far less dense than any other ring discovered so far. The ring is so dramatically sparse -- at seven dust-sized grains per cubic kilometres -- and so huge in extent that even distant Iapetus ploughs through it in its orbit! Phoebe and its ring particles revolve clockwise around Saturn, which it shouldn't do if it were natural to its parent planet as, standardz, hahahahaha, :) #edio