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Saturn from Hubble and Cassini - mind-boggling
Planetary Photojournal ^
| May 26, 2004
Posted on 05/27/2004 11:52:23 AM PDT by cogitator
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cassini; hubble; saturn
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Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. (repeat as necessary)
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posted on
05/27/2004 11:52:23 AM PDT
by
cogitator
To: cogitator
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posted on
05/27/2004 11:53:45 AM PDT
by
grb
To: cogitator
Someday, there are going to be human bases on the moons of Saturn....
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posted on
05/27/2004 11:54:00 AM PDT
by
Pyro7480
(Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
To: cogitator
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posted on
05/27/2004 11:54:50 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(<a href="http://www.johnkerry.com/" target="_blank">miserable failure)
To: Pyro7480
Human bases, probably, but unmanned. It's robotics from here on out.
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posted on
05/27/2004 11:55:49 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
To: cogitator
LOL. My reaction was "Hooo, wow!"
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posted on
05/27/2004 11:56:01 AM PDT
by
Bahbah
To: cogitator
Why is the Cassini image so washed out?
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posted on
05/27/2004 11:56:02 AM PDT
by
Monty22
To: cogitator
Cassini is almost there...
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posted on
05/27/2004 11:56:05 AM PDT
by
demlosers
To: cogitator
I was just thinking about those pix a few days ago for no particular reason. I've always thought those were some of the most spectacular pictures ever taken. Thanks!
To: Pyro7480
Someday, there are going to be human bases on the moons of Saturn.... Maybe, maybe not -- pretty nasty radiation environment thereabouts.
If we ever establish a viable interplanetary infrastructure, I can see there being stations in the vicinity of Jupiter or Saturn, both of which are big balls of rocket propellant. You could send "ram scoops" along the upper atmosphere of those planets to collect the stuff, and then process it in a less hazardous place.
But I really can't see anybody wanting to live on these moons.
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posted on
05/27/2004 11:57:38 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: cogitator
You gotta be kidding BTT.
To: Pyro7480
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posted on
05/27/2004 11:59:31 AM PDT
by
eastsider
(Must stop self ...)
To: cogitator
Look at the moon in the bottom right of the lower picture.... Really puts Saturn's size into perspective.
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posted on
05/27/2004 11:59:58 AM PDT
by
Lunatic Fringe
(John F-ing Kerry??? NO... F-ING... WAY!!!)
To: RightWhale
This year has been like football season year around. And this year, we get Cassini's orbital insertion, than football, then Hugynes right after. Very nice TV!
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posted on
05/27/2004 12:01:19 PM PDT
by
Dead Dog
To: Monty22
Why is the Cassini image so washed out? It's the imaging data does that. By the time they produce an image the data has been processed, sectioned, resectioned and colorized. Same thing happened with the Mars rovers. It was weeks before they settled on what color the rocks should look like.
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posted on
05/27/2004 12:04:41 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
To: Dead Dog
This year has been like football season year around. In fact, hockey season was exactly like football season, what with Philadelphia being stopped one game short of making it to the big dance. :-/
To: cogitator
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posted on
05/27/2004 12:08:07 PM PDT
by
evets
(God bless president George W. Bush)
To: Physicist
To: cogitator; Molly Pitcher; petuniasevan; Howlin
Absolutely amazing photos!
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posted on
05/27/2004 12:16:11 PM PDT
by
kayak
(My fellow Americans, we will not fail. We will persevere, and defeat this enemy. - GWB 5/24/04)
To: cogitator
Algore will say he invented Saturn, but in reality it was Uranus.
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posted on
05/27/2004 12:24:14 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Thanks Hillary!)
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