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Quick Time Movie for PIA06243 Cassini's First Close Brush with Hyperion (Animation) This movie sequence provides the record of Cassini's first close brush with Hyperion, Saturn's chaotically tumbling moon. As the spacecraft whizzes past, Hyperion's unusual shape is most apparent. The jagged outlines are indicators of large impacts chipping away at Hyperion's shape as a sculptor does to marble. Hyperion's unusual dimensions are 328 by 260 by 214 kilometers (204 by 162 by 132 miles). These…
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