Saturn has 83 known moons that aren't within its rings and each one of them has its own unique properties the strangest of them all though is Hyperion.
Which was first discovered in 1848 it's an irregular shape has an unpredictable rotation and is covered in craters and it was the first non-spherical moon to ever be found the current theory of why Hyperion is such a strange shape that it is was once a part of a much bigger moon that was destroyed in a collision and what we see is Hyperion is all that remains this large.
Proto-Hyperion could have been up to 620 miles in diameter and the release of all this material would almost certainly have had an effect on other nearby moons and potentially added to Saturn's rings.
A further mystery are the craters on its surface. Which are so deep that probes have been unable to image what's at the bottom of them.
It's often referred to as a sponge moon because of the way it looks recent estimates have suggested that as much as 40 percent of the moon is actually empty space.
This has led to the strange wobble in its orbit which doesn't appear to follow a set pattern like most other objects do.
It means that it exerts a weaker gravitational force than would be expected for something its size thought to be made purely of rock and ice.
The Cassini probe
flew quite close to it in 2005. Which is why there are such good images of the
moon but this also found a further mystery of Hyperion.
# Footage Captured of Saturn's Hyperion:
It has a slight electrical charge to it and right now no one knows why ?
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