Giant Ice Avalanches On Iapetus Provide Clue To Extreme
Slippage Elsewhere In The Solar System

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"We see landslides everywhere in the solar system," says Kelsi Singer, graduate student in Earth and planetary sciences in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, "but Saturn's icy moon Iapetus has more giant landslides than any body other than Mars." The reason, says William McKinnon, PhD, professor of Earth and planetary sciences, is Iapetus' spectacular topography. "Not

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