NOUN
- (Greek mythology) the Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology
How To Use Iapetus In A Sentence
- `One of them, Iapetus, is black on one side and white on the other: okay, let's give Jupiter a whirl. RESCUING ROSE
- By the Early Devonian the Iapetus Ocean had closed and was replaced in northern Britain by an essentially transtensional regime with sinistral shearing, and accompanied by major igneous activity.
- If the short-lived moonlet emerged from a debris disk, as Earth's moon did, the moonlet could have forced leftover debris onto Iapetus to form the walnut ridge.
- Yea, though Iapetus walk through the valorization of the shagbark of deathwatch 23rd Psaltery
- Heavily cratered terrain is the most abundant geologic unit; but one should note that there are no old, large impact basins like the ones on Rhea, Iapetus, or Callisto.
- The mountainous ridge that circles the equator on the Saturnian moon Iapetus is both weird and spectacular.
- It is composited of three views captured through ultraviolet, green, and infrared filters to bring out compositional variations across the sunlit hemisphere of Iapetus.
- In the 17th century, the astronomer Giovanni Cassini noticed Iapetus had one dark side and one lighter side, but had no idea why.
- One of the initial consequences of the shrinking of Iapetus was a gradual decline in the provinciality of fossils.
- If the short-lived moonlet emerged from a debris disk, as Earth's moon did, the moonlet could have forced leftover debris onto Iapetus to form the walnut ridge.