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Chapter 9, Figure 16
Figure
9.16
Iapetus,
Saturn's third largest satellite. The huge dark area on one side of it may
be dust from Phoebe, an extremely dark Saturnian moon that orbits near Iapetus.
Such dust might be debris ejected from Phoebe when small asteroids or meteorites
strike its surface. (Courtesy NASA/JPL.)
