Tethys Up Close

Horizon visible at top

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brownpau says:

There seems to be a line of tiny craters in the lower left quadrant of this view, stretching across older craters from left to bottom center. I wonder what kind of impact could have formed that?
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drstone92 says:

"Crater chains" like the one you point out are not uncommon. They're on the Moon, a few on Mars, and virtually every other solid body in the Solar System.

We saw what can form them when Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit Jupiter - the gravity of jupiter tore apart a cometary nucleus and the fragments smashed one after the other into Jupiter. Had Jupiter been solid and not spinning so godawful fast, it would have left behind a chain of craters.

Although, of course, in the spirit of free speech and true open debate, I am required to state that an unknown and not necessarily supernatural, just really, really darn smart and powerful, "intelligence" could have created it by fiat. So burn your science textbook. Now. Or we'll shoot you.

Planetarium man
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