Thar She Blows! Saturn Moon Looks Like Moby Dick Saturn's
irregularly-shaped moon Prometheus gets a three-dimensional
rendering in this close-up from Cassini spacecraft. CREDIT:
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Is it Moby Dick? A potato? H.
R. Giger's Alien skull? Looking like a combination of all three
of those things, Prometheus, Saturn's moon, appears to float out
toward the viewer in this 3-D rendering made by the Cassini
spacecraft. This stereoscopic view is a complementary color
anaglyph image, which combines two black-and-white images taken
from slightly different angles. By coloring one image red and
the other blue, the two images can be combined into one stereo
image by the brain of the viewer wearing red-blue glasses.
(Glasses not included.) The viewer is being treated to a view of
the leading hemisphere of Prometheus (53 miles, or 86
kilometers, across). North on Prometheus is up and rotated 47
degrees to the right. The end of Prometheus on the lower right
points toward Saturn, while the opposite e