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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 11 2009, 03:10 PM (138 Views) | |
| George K | Jan 11 2009, 03:10 PM Post #1 |
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Finally
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![]() "In the shadow of Saturn, unexpected wonders appear. The robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn recently drifted in giant planet's shadow for about 12 hours and looked back toward the eclipsed Sun. Cassini saw a view unlike any other. First, the night side of Saturn is seen to be partly lit by light reflected from its own majestic ring system. Next, the rings themselves appear dark when silhouetted against Saturn, but quite bright when viewed away from Saturn and slightly scattering sunlight, in the above exaggerated color image. Saturn's rings light up so much that new rings were discovered, although they are hard to see in the above image. Visible in spectacular detail, however, is Saturn's E ring, the ring created by the newly discovered ice-fountains of the moon Enceladus, and the outermost ring visible above. Far in the distance, visible on the image left just above the bright main rings, is the almost ignorable pale blue dot of Earth. " |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Moonbat | Jan 11 2009, 03:19 PM Post #2 |
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Pisa-Carp
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There are strange optical effects going on there (well probably very normal optical effects, i just don't know what's going on). It almost looks like Saturn is a giant glass ball in front of the ring system. Cool image though, i wonder why it looks that way. |
| Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem | |
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| Mikhailoh | Jan 11 2009, 03:25 PM Post #3 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Gorgeous. Probably my only real regret in life is that I will not live to see the wonders of space in person. How awesome that would be. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Mark | Jan 11 2009, 03:29 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Wow. The front rings are in shadow and we are seeing the reflection of the rings in the surface of the planet which is also in shadow. What an amazing sight. |
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___.___ (_]===* o 0 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells | |
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| George K | Jan 11 2009, 03:32 PM Post #5 |
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Look at Earth. "Ignorable." Indeed. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| ivorythumper | Jan 11 2009, 03:34 PM Post #6 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Obviously photoshopped. It looks like a airbrush job on a 68' Chevy van. |
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| Copper | Jan 11 2009, 04:44 PM Post #7 |
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Shortstop
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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