When the moon hits your eye like a big... ravioli?
NASA shared an Instagram post last week showing the closest images of Saturn's innermost moon taken by the Cassini spacecraft during its mission, and the pictures might make you hungry.
"Ravioli, pierogi, empanada... What do you see? No wrong answers," NASA wrote in the post, which included two black-and-white pictures of the moon from different perspectives.
The moon resembles some popular food dishes, although there were many different interpretations among the more than 4,500 comments on the post.
"The one on the left looks like vanilla ice cream," one commenter wrote.
"It looks like a giant Mozarella ball," another said.
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"I see a turtle," wrote another.
The photos were taken in 2017 from the Cassini spacecraft during its closest encounter with the Saturn moon, passing within 15,300 miles. But the pics weren't fully devoured by the public until NASA shared them in a Sept. 25 post.
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During that mission, NASA learned more about the odd-shaped satellites of Saturn.
The Saturn moon was first discovered in 1990 by Mark R. Showalter in photographs captured nine year prior by the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
The food-like shaped moon is named Pan, but not after the cookware. According to NASA, Pan was named after a Greek god of nature and the forest that resembles a man with the hind legs and hooves of a goat.
Perhaps it's time to update its name...Ravioli? Pierogi? Empanada?
