article_snippet.sent: During the flyby, Esa got more than Esa bargained for as Hyperion unleashed a burst of charged particles towards the spacecraft, effectively delivering a giant 200-volt electric shock.
article_snippet.sent: It appears that Hyperion's surface becomes electrostatically charged as Hyperion's surface becomes is bathed in charged particles.
article_snippet.sent: charged particles are constantly streaming out into space from the sun, but Named Hyperion also has to deal with ones trapped within the magnetic field of the sun host planet, Saturn.
article_snippet.sent: While astronomers expected many bodies throughout the solar system to be charged, the Cassini data represents the first-ever experience of a charged natural object in space other than our moon. '
article_snippet.sent: The large difference in potential between the surface and the spacecraft resulted in a flow of electrons being accelerated from Named Hyperion.
article_snippet.sent: During the flyby, Cassini got more than the entire moon bargained for as Hyperion unleashed a burst of charged particles towards the spacecraft, effectively delivering a giant 200-volt electric shock (artist's impression pictured)
highlights_snippet.sent: Named Hyperion has been known to unleash huge bursts of charged particles .