Iapetus. Major Missions Basic Facts Voyager I and 2 Cassini-Huygens Just the Facts Metric | English | Scientific NotationEnglishScientific Notation.

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Iapetus

Major Missions Basic Facts Voyager I and 2 Cassini-Huygens Just the Facts Metric | English | Scientific NotationEnglishScientific Notation Orbit Size (semi-major axis): 3,560,851 km Mean Radius: km Volume: 1,667,300,080 km 3 Mass: 1,805,952,411,282,580,000,000 kg

More Facts Iapetus has a diameter of 1,471 km (914 miles) and a density only 1.2 times that of liquid water. It has been suggested that Iapetus (like Rhea) is three quarters ice and one quarter rock

Dark leading hemisphere Bright trailing hemisphere Its leading hemisphere has a reflectivity (or albedo) as dark as coal (albedo with a slight reddish tinge) and its trailing hemisphere is much brighter at

How did the dark material develop? The September 2007 Cassini flyby of Iapetus showed that a third process, thermal segregation, is probably the most responsible for Iapetus' dark hemisphere. Iapetus has a very slow rotation, longer than 79 days

Such a slow rotation means that the daily temperature cycle is very long, so long that the dark material can absorb heat from the sun and warm up. (The dark material absorbs more heat than the bright icy material.) This heating will cause any volatile, or icy, species within the dark material to sublime out, and retreat to colder regions on Iapetus.

This sublimation of volatiles causes the dark material to become even darker -- and causes neighboring bright, cold regions to become even brighter. Iapetus may have experienced a (possibly small) influx of dark material from an external source, which could have warmed up and triggered this thermal segregation proccess.

The Equatorial Ridge Some scientists think the ridge was formed at an earlier time when Iapetus rotated much faster than it does today; others think the ridge is made of material left from the collapse of a ring.