Abstract

Both endogenic and exogenic formation mechanisms have been proposed for the equatorial ridge on Saturn's moon Iapetus. With photogeological mapping and crater statistics, we find that the morphology of the ridge is best explained by an exogenic origin, principally by the accretion onto the moon's surface of an orbiting ring of material.

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