Posted on 09/04/2018 6:33:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The image has been doing the rounds over the past few days, racking up tens of thousands of views and retweets on social media. But the image was created using computer graphics. Some people have confused the image for a real photo simply because it appeared on the NASA website, but the description of the image makes it clear that it’s just an artist’s depiction:
This artist’s concept shows an over-the-shoulder view of Cassini making one of its Grand Finale dives over Saturn.
The Cassini probe was a joint project between NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency), and the Italian Space Agency and was launched on October 15, 1997. It took six years and 261 days to get to Saturn, and Cassini spent just shy of 20 years in space. The “Grand Finale,” which is what the artist was depicting in the illustration above, involved risky passes in between the planet and its famous rings.
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IIRC, some of the more spectacular images are from radio-telescopes that I think just capture the frequency information. And then they assign colors to the various frequencies so that we can “see” them.
T Y for your kindness - we all live or die for something, and as for me, I love women, and they love me, as it should be ~ according to Our Natural Law.
My love for women supersedes, and surpasses (by far) what the homos call ‘love’. If I had to choose only one thing I was willing to die for, it would be an eternal heterosupremacy!
Haha, cute
Awesome photo.
Yep
When 50 photos are composited into one ‘layered’ image it’s still photopped art and not a photo.
Looks like a thumb in front of the lens. Why did they send a thumb?
When 50 photos are composited into one ‘layered’ image it’s still photopped art and not a photo.
That's a philosophical argument.
Thanks for sharing your pic, nice one!
Inadmissible in court.
We’re not talking about legal proceedings.
And there are no reflectors on the moon which allows folks to bounce lasers off........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNaM0wV6TC0
It is time to wake up Freepers. NASA is a Nazi German lie. They are sucking money from us for lie after lie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj2Bs5osZPo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-J-HU3v33o&t=627s
ROFL!!!
Your tagline is amazingly appropriate to those video links you posted.
50 photos by definition is not one photo
Define “photograph”.
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