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Stunning Image from Saturn: A splendid portrait created by light and gravity.
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Posted on 11/29/2004 3:46:00 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares
In a splendid portrait created by light and gravity, Saturn's lonely moon Mimas is seen against the cool, blue-streaked backdrop of Saturn's northern hemisphere. Delicate shadows cast by the rings arc gracefully across the planet, fading into darkness on Saturn's night side.
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06142
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA06142.jpg
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cassini; jpl; nasa; saturn; space
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To: Names Ash Housewares
Thats an X-Ray of Hillary's Head, The Dot in the middle is an Ashtray.......
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posted on
11/29/2004 3:48:08 PM PST
by
cmsgop
(Not too big though)
To: cmsgop
Hillary's what?
To: Names Ash Housewares
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posted on
11/29/2004 3:53:15 PM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(Santorum 2008)
To: Names Ash Housewares
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posted on
11/29/2004 3:54:04 PM PST
by
Ptarmigan
(Proud rabbit hater and killer)
To: Names Ash Housewares
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posted on
11/29/2004 3:54:45 PM PST
by
Jackknife
(.......Land of the Free,because of the Brave.)
To: Ptarmigan
Saturn is a planet of a different sort, for sure
As to : Proud rabbit hater & killer.
I've always contended that animal shelters have DOGS, CATS, and STEW.
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posted on
11/29/2004 3:57:13 PM PST
by
BigEdLB
(BigEd)
To: BigEdLB
Actually, astronomers now believe that rings may be more common than previously thought. Saturn may not be very unique, although unique enough.
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posted on
11/29/2004 4:00:19 PM PST
by
Prost1
(If you teach what your history teachers taught you, you will be corrected...)
To: Prost1
Great photos...particularly for a polaroid...
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posted on
11/29/2004 4:03:53 PM PST
by
weenie
(Islam is as "dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog." -- Churchill)
To: Names Ash Housewares; KevinDavis
Awesome pics, Huygens will be dropping into the atmosphere of Titan in January.
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posted on
11/29/2004 4:07:26 PM PST
by
Brett66
(W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1)
To: weenie
Actually, I used my Cybershot - but thanks anyway
To: Names Ash Housewares
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posted on
11/29/2004 4:32:43 PM PST
by
JOE6PAK
(...still crazy after all these BEERS!)
To: Prost1
All the gas giants have rings; so far as we have seen. Jupiter's was seen by an amateur astronomer in the 50s and rediscovered by NASA a couple decades later.
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posted on
11/29/2004 4:36:36 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Destroy the dark; restore the light)
To: Ptarmigan
I'd take a rabbit over a Ptarmigan any day.
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posted on
11/29/2004 4:38:46 PM PST
by
Huck
(The day will come when liberals will complain that chess is too violent .)
To: michaelbfree
You must have used a tripod...I know I would have wiggling all over the place...
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posted on
11/29/2004 4:40:57 PM PST
by
weenie
(Islam is as "dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog." -- Churchill)
To: Names Ash Housewares
Back in the fifties, there was an illustrator who did some striking full page full color illustrations of imaginary views of and from the various planets. His name, unfortunately, escapes my memory.
However, these photographs could be inserted into a coffee table book of his illustrations without arousing any suspicions whatsoever...
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posted on
11/29/2004 4:45:04 PM PST
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: Names Ash Housewares
Looks like one big "accident" to me.
To: Brett66
"Huygens will be dropping into the atmosphere of Titan in January." Yup. I'm waiting, waiting.
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posted on
11/29/2004 4:50:01 PM PST
by
blam
To: cmsgop
The dot could be a brain
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posted on
11/29/2004 4:54:36 PM PST
by
festus
(Old growth timbers make the best campfires....)
To: okie01
Chesley Bonestell. And his illustrations were before any kind of satellite imagery.
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