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b. s. Iapetos, atau Japetos ( Bahasa Yunani: Ἰαπετός [1] ), adalah seorang Titan dalam mitologi Yunani. Iapetos adalah putra dari Uranus dan Gaia. Dia adalah saudara Kronos dan memimpin dunia bawah sebelum Hades. Dia beristrikan seorang Okeanid yang bernama Klimene atau Asia.
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Overview. Iapetus has been called the yin and yang of the Saturn moons because its leading hemisphere has a reflectivity (or albedo) as dark as coal (albedo 0.03-0.05 with a slight reddish tinge) and its trailing hemisphere is much brighter at 0.5-0.6. Saturn's third largest moon, Iapetus has a mean radius of 457 miles (736 kilometers) and a ...
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Samudra Iapetus adalah Lautan yang ada pada akhir Neoproterozoikum dan awal Paleozoikum (dalam skala geologi lebih tepatnya antara 600 hingga 400 juta tahun yang lalu). Saat terbentuk, Samudra Iapetus terletak di antara tiga benua, yakni Laurentia, Baltica, Mikro-benua Avalonia.
Iapetus. In Greek mythology, Iapetus ( / aɪˈæpɪtəs /; eye-AP-ih-təs; [1] Ancient Greek: Ἰαπετός, romanized : Iapetós ), [2] also Japetus, is a Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia [3] and father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius. He was also called the father of Buphagus [4] and Anchiale [5] in other sources.
The Origins of Iapetus. Iapetus is an elder Titan born from the primordial gods Uranus and Gaia. His parents were some of the first two beings to exist. According to “The Illiad” by Homer, he almost didn’t exist at all. Iapetus was just one of the Titan gods hidden in Tartarus by Uranus.
Iapetus (/ aɪ ˈ æ p ə t ə s /) is the outermost of Saturn's large moons. With an estimated diameter of 1,469 km, it is the third-largest moon of Saturn and the eleventh-largest in the Solar System. Named after the Titan Iapetus, the moon was discovered in 1671 by Giovanni Domenico Cassini.
Iapetus has a bright and a dark hemisphere, with a ridge running along its equator. The dark region is called Cassini Regio and is the principal feature of the leading hemisphere. The surface of Iapetus is heavily cratered, with large impact basins up to 580 kilometres across. Surface darkening on Iapetus comes from organic materials left ...
