Thar She Blows! Saturn Moon Looks Like Moby Dick

Is it Moby Dick? A potato? H. R. Giger's Alien skull? Lookinglike 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 theCassini spacecraft.

This stereoscopicview is a complementary color anaglyph image, which combines twoblack-and-white images taken from slightly different angles. By coloring oneimage red and the other blue, the two images can be combined into one stereoimage by the brain of the viewer wearing red-blue glasses. (Glasses notincluded.)

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