Despite its spongy appearance, Saturn’s moon Hyperion is one battered satellite.  

The small, irregular moon appears to have been beaten into its current shape through countless meteor impacts in the past, and may sport one of the oldest surfaces in our solar system, NASA has said.

The Cassini space probe currently orbiting Saturn photographed the peppered moon on Sept. 25, 2005, generating this raw image with its onboard camera. The camera was about 56,298 miles (90,604 kilometers) away from Hyperion when Cassini obtained this image, though the probe was slated to edge within 628 miles (1,010 kilometers) of the moon on Sept. 26, 2005.

Because this is a raw view of Hyperion, this image has not been validated of calibrated by imaging scientists.

-- SPACE.com Staff

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.