* Astronomy

Saturn's chaotically tumbling moon Hyperion was captured by the Cassini spacecraft.



Seen at the top is a 130-kilometer-wide crater (also seen in some NASA Voyager spacecraft images). Detecting specific features is the first step in trying to understand the current rotation state of Hyperion, compared to that at the time of the Voyager flyby.
Hyperion is 266 kilometres across.
This is the second-closest view of Hyperion obtained by Cassini so far.
The image was taken in visible light with the narrow-angle camera on March 19, 2005, at a distance of approximately 1.3 million kilometres from Hyperion.

The closest view was included in a previously released montage of Hyperion images.