Saturn's moon Iapetus is one huge ball of ice. Most such bodies have rocky cores, but scientists believe Iapetus is water ice through and through.
That doesn't mean Iapetus is a simple ball, however. It's equator sports a mountain range with peaks 12 miles high. It's also an active world, at least potentially. The Cassini spacecraft has snapped images of "landslides"-- actually ice slides-- that seem to have occurred recently.
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