Earth’s largely rumoured “man in the moon” may not be real, but there is definite proof of a “Pac-Man in the moon” on Saturn!
Two of Saturn’s moons, Tethys and Mimas, have heat tattoos that look like Pac-Man about to chomp away on some of those tasty pac-dots.
How did Pac-Man migrate from the arcades of the 1980s to Saturn’s moons? Scientists suspect that the high-energy electrons hit the low latitudes on the moons causing that part of the surface to turn into ice that is packed very hard and doesn’t heat up or cool down as rapidly as expected. Therefore leaving a “tattoo” in a random shape, which just happens to be of Pac-Man!
No sign yet of Blinky, Pinky, Inky or Clyde.