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	Iapetus, A Moon of Saturn
		Iapetus [eye-AP-i-tus] is one of the stranger moons of Saturn.
		This image of Iapetus was acquired by the Voyager 1 spacecraft on 14 November 1980.
		This is another image of Iapetus acquired by the Voyager 2 spacecraft on August 22, 1981.
	www.solarviews.com /span/iapetus.htm (514 words)

	Sea and Sky's Tour of the Solar System: Iapetus
		According to legend, Iapetus was later imprisoned by Zeus in Tartarus after the rebellion of the Titans against the gods.
		One puzzling aspect of this phenomenon is that the dividing line between the dark and light areas is extremely sharp.
		The dark, smooth region of Iapetus is known as the Cassini Regio.
	www.seasky.org /solarsystem/sky3g8.html (411 words)

	IAPETUS : Greek Titan god of mortality ; mythology : IAPETOS, JAPETUS
		IAPETOS (or Iapetus) was one of the Titan gods, sons of Ouranos (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth).
		IA′PETUS (Iapetos), a son of Uranus and Ge, a Titan and brother of Cronus, Oceanus, Coeus, Hyperion, Tethys, Rhea, andc.
		479) Iapetus is imprisoned with Cronus in Tartarus, and Silius Italicus (xii.
	www.theoi.com /Titan/TitanIapetos.html (1782 words)

	Iapetus - Encyclopedia.com
		Science News; 7/22/1989; 201 words; Tar sands on Iapetus One of the solar system's most unusual-looking moons is Saturn's two-faced Iapetus, icy-bright on the side that faces behind...
		Structural transect through Silurian turbidites of the Fredericton Belt southwest of Fredericton, New Brunswick: the role of the Fredericton Fault in late Iapetus convergence.
		In the case of Iapetus it is a ridge around the moon's equator, clearly...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Iapet-myt.html (903 words)

	Solar System Exploration: Planets: Saturn: Moons: Iapetus
		Two-faced Iapetus (eye-AP-eh-tuss) is one of Saturn's strangest moons.
		A Titan and the father of Atlas, Iapetus was also the father of three Titans who judged the souls of the dead in Hades: Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus.
		Iapetus fought Zeus in the war between the Titans and the Olympian gods.
	solarsystem.nasa.gov /planets/profile.cfm?Object=Sat_Iapetus (262 words)

	Iapetus
		In Greek mythology Iapetus was a Titan, the son of Uranus, the father of Prometheus and Atlas and an ancestor of the human race.
		The leading and trailing hemispheres of Iapetus are radically different.
		All of Saturn's moons except for Iapetus and Phoebe are very nearly in the plane of Saturn's equator.
	www.seds.org /nineplanets/nineplanets/iapetus.html (374 words)

	Iapetus - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Iapetus (astronomy), large moon of the planet Saturn.
		Iapetus (mythology), in Greek mythology, son of the gods Uranus and Gaea.
		Iapetus was one of the 12 Titans, gods possessing superhuman size and...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Iapetus.html (104 words)

	Iapetus
		In December 2004, the Cassini spacecraft discovered a further extraordinary feature of Iapetus: a topographic ridge that coincides almost exactly with the geographic equator.
		It is not yet clear whether the ridge is a mountain belt that has folded upward, or an extensional crack in the surface through which material from inside Iapetus erupted onto the surface and accumulated locally, forming the ridge.
		Another theory holds that the dark coating consists of debris that was ejected by impact events on dark, outer satellites of Saturn, such as Phoebe, and then swept up by Iapetus as it moved in its orbit.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/I/Iapetus.html (913 words)

	Iapetus (moon)
		Iapetus (eye-ap'-i-tus, Greek Ιαπετός) (British spelling: "Japetus") is the third-largest moon of Saturn (see: Saturn's natural satellites), discovered by Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1671.
		Iapetus is best known for its dramatic 'two-tone' coloration, but recent discoveries by the Cassini-Huygens mission have revealed several other unusual physical characteristics.
		Iapetus is a heavily cratered body, and Cassini images have revealed large impact basins in the dark region, at least three of which are over 350 km wide.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Astro/Iapetus.html (1471 words)

	Iapetus - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		Iapetus is the one Titan mentioned by Homer in the Iliad (8.478–81) as being in Tartarus with Cronus.
		Anchiale, daughter of Iapetus, founded Anchiale (a city near Tarsus): her son was Cydnus, who gave his name to the river at Tarsus: the son of Cydnus was Parthenius, from whom the city was called Parthenia: afterwards the name was changed to Tarsus.
		Iapetus is often equated with Japheth, the son of Noah, based on the similarity of their names.
	www.egnu.org /thelema/Iapetus (381 words)

	Iapetus - SourceryForge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Greek mythology, Iapetus, or Iapetos, was a Titan, the son of Ouranos and Gaia, and father (by an Oceanid named Clymene or Asia) of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius and through Prometheus and Epimetheus and Atlas an ancestor of the human race.
		Iapetus is the one Titan mentioned by Homer in the Iliad (8.478-81) as being in Tartarus with Cronus.
		Iapetus' wife is normally a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys named Clymene or Asia.
	sourceryforge.org /index.php/Iapetus (389 words)

	Iapetus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Iapetus is one of the stranger moons of Saturn.
		Iapetus is one of the moons of Saturn.
		The fact that the Iapetus landslide traveled many kilometers from the basin scarp could indicate that the surface material is very fine-grained, and perhaps was fluffed by mechanical forces that allowed the landslide debris to flow extended distances.
	abyss.uoregon.edu /~js/ast121/lectures/iapetus.html (263 words)

	Saturn's Moon Iapetus
		Iapetus [eye-AP-i-tus] is one of the stranger moons of Saturn.
		Since Iapetus is so far from Saturn, it may have formed with methane or ammonia ice in its interior.
		This image of Iapetus was acquired by the Voyager 2 spacecraft on August 22, 1981.
	www.iki.rssi.ru /solar/eng/iapetus.htm (332 words)

	Saturn's Moon Iapetus Shows a Bulging Waistline - Space - RedOrbit
		The image shows Iapetus' surface illuminated by reflected light from Saturn (not by the Sun) and is the highest resolution view acquired to date of this part of Iapetus' surface.
		Consequently, despite the large relative speed between Iapetus and the spacecraft during this long exposure -- about 2 kilometers per second or almost 4,500 miles per hour at closest approach -- the image of the moon's surface is un-smeared (although the background stars are smeared).
		However, the occurrence of some young-appearing craters on Iapetus that have bright north-facing and dark south-facing slopes, and the pattern of streaks near the north pole of Iapetus suggests that another mechanism may be responsible for the crater wall brightness asymmetries on Iapetus.
	www.redorbit.com /news/display?id=117199 (2902 words)

	Iapetus
		In Greek mythology Iapetus, or Iapetos (eye-ap'-i-tus, Greek Ιαπετός), was a Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia, and father (by an Oceanid named Clymene or Asia) of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius and through Prometheus and Epimetheus and Atlas an ancestor of the human race.
		Iapetus is the one Titan mentioned by Homer in the Iliad (8.478–81) as being in Tartarus with Cronus.
		Anchiale, daughter of Iapetus, founded Anchiale (a city near Tarsus): her son was Cydnus, who gave his name to the river at Tarsus: the son of Cydnus was Parthenius, from whom the city was called Parthenia: afterwards the name was changed to Tarsus.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Mythology/Iapetus.html (408 words)

	Saturn's Moon Iapetus
		Iapetus [eye-AP-i-tus] is one of the stranger moons of Saturn.
		Since Iapetus is so far from Saturn, it may have formed with methane or ammonia ice in its interior.
		This image of Iapetus was acquired by the Voyager 2 spacecraft on August 22, 1981.
	iki.cosmos.ru /solar/eng/iapetus.htm (332 words)

	Iapetus
		Iapetus is a satellite of the planet Saturn.
		Compared with the satellites of other planets of the solar system, Iapetus is a large Moon with a diameter of 1436 km and a mass of 1.88E+21 kg kg.
		Iapetus is an average distance of 3561300 km from Saturn and completes its revolution of Saturn in 79.33 days.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /moons/iapetus.htm (64 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Cassini passes 'two-faced' moon
		One side of Iapetus' surface is as bright as snow, while the other is coated in a material as dark as tar.
		The dark coating is rich in organic (carbon-based) molecules and blankets the side of Iapetus that leads in the direction of orbital motion around Saturn (apart from the moon's poles).
		In Greek mythology, Iapetus was a Titan - one of a race of god-like giants who were born from Uranus and Gaia.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/4134707.stm (613 words)

	APOD: October 15, 1995 - Iapetus: Saturn's Disappearing Moon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Iapetus has an unusual surface, one half of which is very dark, the other half very light.
		Iapetus could only be seen when on one side of Saturn but not the other.
		Iapetus is the third largest of Saturn's moon behind Titan and Rhea.
	antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /apod/ap951015.html (86 words)

	Saturn's Moon Iapetus - Explore the Cosmos \| The Planetary Society
		Iapetus has extreme topography and one of the most ancient surfaces in the solar system.
		Iapetus orbits much farther away from Saturn than any other major moon, three times farther away than Titan and about ten times farther than all the rest of the medium-sized icy moons.
		The cause of the fl smudge on one face of Iapetus is unknown.
	www.planetary.org /explore/topics/saturn/iapetus.html (527 words)

	Iapetus: 2005 To 2007 - Unmanned Spaceflight.com
		Sadly, there are no close fly-bys (or should that be flys-by?) of Iapetus during this period, or in the subsequent parts of the tour between now and the close flyby scheduled for September 2007.
		Iapetus is very interesting, and I hope they can arrange to get some good imagery of it.
		Iapetus is probably one of the #10-#15 intriguing worlds in the solar system, but Titan is clearly top five and Enceladus is vying for that.
	www.unmannedspaceflight.com /index.php?showtopic=1341 (1572 words)

	Iapetus
		Iapetus is the 2nd farthest moon from Saturn, with a standoff distance of 3,561,300 km.
		Iapetus is one of the icy moons, similar to the Galilean satellites.
		Iapetus is about as wide as California is long, 1440 km, or 960 miles, which makes it about the same size as Rhea, a moderately large icy moon.
	www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/saturn/moons/iapetus.html&text=t (191 words)

	SPACE.com -- Strange Shadows: Saturn's Two-Faced Moon
		The dark material covers precisely the side of Iapetus that leads in the direction of orbital motion around Saturn (except for the poles), whereas the bright material occurs on the trailing hemisphere and at the poles.
		Iapetus is 907 miles (1,460 kilometers) wide and circles Saturn at a distance of about 2.2 million miles (3.6 million kilometers).
		Oddly, the side of Iapetus that always faces forward as it moves along its orbital path -- think of the front of a race car on a circular track -- reflects just 5 percent of the sunlight that hits it.
	space.com /scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_040426.html (962 words)

	Saturn's Moon, Iapetus
		Iapetus is the third largest of Saturn's moons, with a diameter of 900 miles.
		One suggestion is that Iapetus has had episodes of ice vulcanism which has released methane-rich materials from the interior, and subsequent darkening of the methane ice by the absorption of ultraviolet radiation from the Sun has made the material quite dark.
		However, the color of the dark material on Iapetus is slightly different from that of Phoebe, and sweeping up debris should lead to a fuzzier boundary between the light and dark areas.
	cseligman.com /text/moons/iapetus.htm (662 words)

	SPACE.com -- Strange Shadows: Saturn's Two-Faced Moon
		The dark material covers precisely the side of Iapetus that leads in the direction of orbital motion around Saturn (except for the poles), whereas the bright material occurs on the trailing hemisphere and at the poles.
		Iapetus is 907 miles (1,460 kilometers) wide and circles Saturn at a distance of about 2.2 million miles (3.6 million kilometers).
		Oddly, the side of Iapetus that always faces forward as it moves along its orbital path -- think of the front of a race car on a circular track -- reflects just 5 percent of the sunlight that hits it.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_040426.html (950 words)

	Iapetus compared to Venus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Iapetus is 1.22 times the diameter of Umbriel (a satellite of Uranus).
		Iapetus is 2.88 times the diameter of Enceladus (a satellite of Saturn).
		Iapetus is 44.5 times the diameter of Helene (a satellite of Saturn).
	ic.arc.nasa.gov /projects/bayes-group/Atlas/size/Iapetus/Venus.html (133 words)

	Iapetus Report: Has NASA Found the New Jerusalem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Iapetus is one of the most unusual objects in our solar system.
		The Iapetus photos don't reveal a thickness, but the wall is clearly visible all the way around.
		What the Iapetus discovery does is bring into the documented, measurable, scientific world, what was once only an obscure set of scripture references in the Bible.
	www.bibletime.com /home/faq/iapetus/index.html (2653 words)

	ThothWeb - Iapetus: A Moon, A Mystery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Greek mythology, Iapetus was a Titan – a God - the son of Uranus and Gaia and the ancestor of mankind.
		He suggested that Iapetus had a light side and a dark side, and that it always kept the same face turned to Saturn (in the same way that our moon always keeps the same face turned to the Earth).
		The consensus of opinion is that Iapetus, and many of the moons of similar density, is/are made mainly from water ice.
	www.thothweb.com /article1395.html (2644 words)

	Iapetus
		Iapetus' wife is Clymene, with whom he has four children - Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus and Epimetheus.
		He is occasionally called the husband of Asia or Asopis.
		Article "Iapetus" created on 03 March 1997; last modified on 25 June 1997 (Revision 2).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/i/iapetus.html (41 words)

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