http://ciclops.org/ir_index.php?id=27

Sure is purty ain't she ?

Am I the only one thinking of a giant ying-yang symbol in space, perhaps it's a message our undercover dolphin overloads have sent us?

2008 Guinness advert ahoy!

It's the Oreo moon! If our own is made of cheese, why not?

Iapetus, or Future Sound of London album artwork circa 1994? You decide.

Busy doing what exactly?

Parkinson's Law - work expands to fill the time available.

Either something black has crashed onto an otherwise white Iapetus (or vice versa) or it is two different moons that collided and stuck together.

And did Cassini remain in Safe Mode for six more reboots before coming back to normal? Must have done eventually because the pics don't have "Safe Mode" in each corner.

how come NASA always has a problem when sending crucial pictures like when flying over Cydonia? The data link breaks down... not to mention their preventive lack of color. Arthur, say something! Guess you already did in your novel, Space Odyssey. Ciao to all, may the truth be known!

It's probably been hiding in our solar system for 50,000 years. We need to keep a lookout in case a white and black moon comes looking for it.

Including brief but stunning animation of the mountain belt flypast:

http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001131/

As I was looking into one of those inky black blobs in the white section, I thought, "Oh my God, it's full of stars!" Or is that just because I didn't get any sleep last night? ;)

How does one overload a dolphin overlord?

"....perhaps it's a message our undercover dolphin overloads have sent us?"

It looks for all the world^WSaturn as if a gob of soot hit a marshmallow:

http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001136/

"galactic cosmic ray hit"

No, it was just the stargate opening and closing. The probe was caught by the Black Monolith in the middle of the white are, shipped to the aliens for examination, taken apart, put together, and returned back to the same time and space. Sorry for the small glitch in reassembly that caused it to enter safe mode...