Imagine a powdered sugar doughnut hole plowing through a cloud of dark-chocolate dust. The resulting two-colored treat would resemble one of Saturn’s weirder moons, Iapetus — an icy world with a coal-black face and a bright white backside.
The black-and-white surface of Saturn’s moon Iapetus has puzzled scientists for centuries.
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