Mysterious Pacman on Saturn's moon

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SYDNEY: First there was the man in the Moon and the face on Mars, now astronomers have observed a temperature anomaly on Saturn's moon Mimas that looks like the 1980s computer game icon, Pacman.
Pacman is a simple game where a yellow, circular icon with a wedge-shaped mouth munches 'dots' as it progresses through simple mazes, chased by ghosts.
A similar image has been observed as the NASA spacecraft Cassini flew by Saturn's small, inner moon Mimas, which orbits the gas giant every 22 hours and 37 minutes. Cassini's composite infrared spectrometer observed temperature variations on Mimas last month.


http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/3397/mysterious-pacman-saturns-moon


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