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Do not Adjust Your Screen: Image from Cassini's Dione flyby
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| 10/12/2005
| NASA
Posted on 10/14/2005 10:00:22 AM PDT by cogitator
A bigger image is available at the link.
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Astronomy; Education; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: cassini; dione; flyby; moon; rings; saturn
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Not as weird-looking as Hyperion, but an impressive montage.
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posted on
10/14/2005 10:00:38 AM PDT
by
cogitator
To: 2Trievers; headsonpikes; Pokey78; Lil'freeper; epsjr; sauropod; kayak; Miss Marple; CPT Clay; ...
I hope you don't mind an occasional astro-geology image.
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posted on
10/14/2005 10:03:30 AM PDT
by
cogitator
To: cogitator
Chesley Bonestell, please call the office!
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posted on
10/14/2005 10:03:30 AM PDT
by
Grut
To: cogitator; RadioAstronomer; petuniasevan
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posted on
10/14/2005 10:07:48 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(Late-To-The-Party Marty)
To: cogitator
Oh, that's so fake! Can't ya see the wire?!!
/sarc
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posted on
10/14/2005 10:13:37 AM PDT
by
rockrr
(Never argue with a man who buys ammo in bulk...)
To: cogitator
To: Grut
Chesley Bonestell, please call the office!I've seen about 20-30 images from Cassini (and a few from Galileo) that reminded me of ol' Chesley.
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posted on
10/14/2005 10:28:22 AM PDT
by
cogitator
To: cogitator
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posted on
10/14/2005 10:54:19 AM PDT
by
Professional Engineer
(Yes, the world does revolve around us. We picked the coordinate system.)
To: cogitator
BREATHTAKING! Thanks for the post!
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posted on
10/14/2005 10:55:14 AM PDT
by
cgk
(Bennett: If we are surrounded by the trivial & vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it)
To: cogitator
This is un...freakin'...believable!!!! Thanks.
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posted on
10/14/2005 10:56:20 AM PDT
by
geezerwheezer
(get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
To: cogitator; Two Thirds Vote Aye
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posted on
10/14/2005 11:56:18 AM PDT
by
kayak
(Proud monthly donor and Dollar-a-Day FReeper. You can be one, too.)
To: cogitator; TxBec; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; secret garden
It always amazes me how sharp and distinct (narrow!) the rings are.
Funny too, in all of the 50's and 60's science fiction stories, rings would be drawn around one planet (never two or three!) on the cover of "foreign" solar systems.
But NO ONE EVER assumed rings would be found on several different planets in our own solar system.
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posted on
10/14/2005 12:07:59 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(-I contribute to FR monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS supports Hillary's Secular Sexual Socialism every day.)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
It always amazes me how sharp and distinct (narrow!) the rings are.There must be some high-mathematical orbital dynamics reason for that, but yes, they must be only a few km wide.
Have you seen Cassini pictures of the moonlets that make the gaps in the rings? There's one (and a movie) that shows waves in the rings created by the moon as it goes by. Wild.
To: cogitator
For a few, not even kilometers thick.
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Saturn&Display=Rings
Others are thicker: probably due to the moons being closer.
Ring Name: D
Distance*: 68,000 km
Width: 8,500 km
Ring Name: C
Distance*: 74,500 km
Width: 17,500 km
Mass: 1.1 x 1021 kg
Albedo: 0.1-0.3
Ring Name: B
Distance*: 92,000 km
Width: 25,500 km
Thickness: 0.1 km - 1 km
Mass: 2.8 x 1022 kg
Albedo: 0.4-0.6
Ring Name: Cassini Division
Distance*: 117,500 km
Width: 4,700 km
Mass: 5.7 x 1017 kg
Albedo: 0.2-0.4
Ring Name: A
Distance*: 122,200 km
Width: 14,600 km
Thickness: 0.1 km - 1 km
Mass: 6.2 x 1021 kg
Albedo: 0.4-0.6
Ring Name: F
Distance*: 140,210 km
Width: 30 km - 500 km
Albedo: 0.6
Ring Name: G
Distance*: 165,800 km
Width: 8,000 km
Thickness: 100 km - 1,000 km
Mass: 1 x 1017 kg
Ring Name: E
Distance*: 180,000 km
Width: 300,000 km
Thickness: 1,000 km - 30,000 km
Mass: 7 x 108 kg
* The distance is measured from the planet center to the start of the ring.
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posted on
10/14/2005 12:46:49 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(-I contribute to FR monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS supports Hillary's Secular Sexual Socialism every day.)
To: rockrr
HOAX! If they are in space, why no stars?! /sarc
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posted on
10/14/2005 4:50:00 PM PDT
by
opticks
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Fascinating picture Robert.
To: cogitator
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posted on
10/14/2005 8:27:08 PM PDT
by
Soaring Feather
(If down is up, is up, down. Feathers in the wind.)
To: kayak
Hi kay! Isn't it though! Hard to believe we are seeing this!
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posted on
10/15/2005 3:56:40 AM PDT
by
Two Thirds Vote Aye
(9/11/2001 - The greatest clxxxon legacy to date.)
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
10/15/2005 9:56:14 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
To: 2Trievers; headsonpikes; Pokey78; Lil'freeper; epsjr; sauropod; kayak; Miss Marple; CPT Clay; ...
I just wanted to alert all of you who corresponded on this thread that JPL has a color version of the picture and a small and large Quicktime movie of the flyby.
Multimedia - Images - Moons - Dione
Ice Moon Rendesvous (Videos)
They've also got this shot that I first saw in the video, of Dione with Saturn lurking in the background:
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