Moonday: Helene

From The Planetary Society comes this image of Saturn and its moon, Helene. (Several other magnificent color pictures of Saturnian moons at the link.) You can tell at glance it's a fairly small moon; it's irregularly shaped and has enormous relief compared to its size. Larger bodies with more mass are more strongly effected by gravity and pull themselves into more spherical shapes. A quick check of Wikipedia gives its mean diameter as 17.6 km (11 miles). Though this moon was only discovered in 1980, it was not from a Voyager flyby, but from ground-based observations.

Sunday Funnies: Exasperation Edition

Between Firefox's "upgrade," a plugin called plugin container, which normally lasts all of 10 minutes before it locks up, and Interzone's sinusoidal wi-fi (up again, down again), this has been an extraordinarily irritating week for the web. For the record, I'm glad it's over.Skull Swap
Savage Chickens: "The Dangers of Altruism."

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