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Slippery sliding on icy Iapetus

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Abstract

Enigmatically, some landslides flow farther than normal frictional resistance allows. Cassini images of Saturn's icy moon Iapetus reveal a multitude of long-runout landslides that may have been enabled by flash heating along the sliding surface.

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© 2012 Macmillan Publishers Limited. Published online 31 July 2012.

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