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Cassini snaps Saturn from a dizzying height
20:28 01 March 2007
NewScientist.com news service
Kelly Young
http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11289&feedId=online-news_rss20
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http://tinyurl.com/39oge6
"Saturn and its golden rings appear in dizzying new images taken
by the Cassini spacecraft as it flew high above the planet's poles.
“Finally, here are the views that we’ve waited years for,” says
Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team leader at the Space Science
Institute in Boulder, Colorado, US.
“Sailing high above Saturn and seeing the rings spread out beneath us
like a giant, copper medallion is like exploring an alien world we’ve
never seen before. It just doesn’t look like the same place," she
continues. "It’s so utterly breathtaking, it almost gives you
vertigo.”
For the last two months, Cassini has been taking pictures during
high-latitude trips around Saturn, providing new views of the planet
and its rings. You can see the full collection of Saturnian images
here. http://ciclops.org/
(Large image:)
http://space.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn11289/dn11289-1_600.jpg
One of the pictures includes a top-down view of Saturn with the
overexposed planet removed from the shot to showcase all of the golden
rings. Still, an eerie shadow is cast over them by the ghost planet.
Cameo appearances
The distant moon Dione pops by in another oblique shot of Saturn
(scroll down for more images). There, the rings cast striped shadows
on the planet.
In a black-and-white picture, the viewer seems to be looking up at the
shadowy gaseous planet.
There is also a movie
http://www.nasa.gov/mpg/170640main_pia08356-movie.mpg
made up of 34 images taken by Cassini over 12 hours as it passed
through the plane of the rings. Six moons make cameo appearances in
the clip. Other frames were later inserted to make the film appear
less jerky.
By late June 2007, Cassini is once again expected to be flying in the
plane of the rings, so there will be limited opportunities for such
high-latitude views.
Cassini and its Titan-plunging daughter spacecraft, Huygens, launched
from Florida's Kennedy Space Center in 1997, and the probe has been
orbiting Saturn since 2004."
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| Title: Re: Awe inspiring Science: Cassini snaps Saturn from a Dizzying Height. |
02 Mar 2007 12:30:38 AM |
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In article <d50fu29082dvtfbmb3p4s5ng30352to22a@4ax.com>,
Michael Gray <mikegray@newsguy.com> wrote:
Cassini snaps Saturn from a dizzying height
20:28 01 March 2007
NewScientist.com news service
Kelly Young
http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11289&feedId=online-news_rss20
or
http://tinyurl.com/39oge6
"Saturn and its golden rings appear in dizzying new images taken
by the Cassini spacecraft as it flew high above the planet's poles.
“Finally, here are the views that we’ve waited years for,” says
Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team leader at the Space Science
Institute in Boulder, Colorado, US.
“Sailing high above Saturn and seeing the rings spread out beneath us
like a giant, copper medallion is like exploring an alien world we’ve
never seen before. It just doesn’t look like the same place," she
continues. "It’s so utterly breathtaking, it almost gives you
vertigo.”
I posted that one too. Great shots!
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Contact - Throw a .net over the .com
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| User: "Michael Gray" |
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| Title: Re: Awe inspiring Science: Cassini snaps Saturn from a Dizzying Height. |
02 Mar 2007 03:01:06 AM |
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On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:30:38 -0800, johac <jhachmann@sbcglobal.com>
wrote:
- Refer: <jhachmann-54CFDD.22303801032007@news.giganews.com>
In article <d50fu29082dvtfbmb3p4s5ng30352to22a@4ax.com>,
Michael Gray <mikegray@newsguy.com> wrote:
Cassini snaps Saturn from a dizzying height
20:28 01 March 2007
NewScientist.com news service
Kelly Young
http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11289&feedId=online-news_rss20
or
http://tinyurl.com/39oge6
"Saturn and its golden rings appear in dizzying new images taken
by the Cassini spacecraft as it flew high above the planet's poles.
“Finally, here are the views that we’ve waited years for,” says
Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team leader at the Space Science
Institute in Boulder, Colorado, US.
“Sailing high above Saturn and seeing the rings spread out beneath us
like a giant, copper medallion is like exploring an alien world we’ve
never seen before. It just doesn’t look like the same place," she
continues. "It’s so utterly breathtaking, it almost gives you
vertigo.”
I posted that one too. Great shots!
It deserves to be posted a hundred times!
The images, and the spine tingling emotion behind the whole vast
project, so exceed, in majesty, any pissy little parochial terrestrial
god.
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Awe inspiring Science: Cassini snaps Saturn from a Dizzying Height. |
02 Mar 2007 06:27:52 PM |
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In article <jrpfu211814ric96gc48k20osm8vlmernk@4ax.com>,
Michael Gray <mikegray@newsguy.com> wrote:
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:30:38 -0800, johac <jhachmann@sbcglobal.com>
wrote:
- Refer: <jhachmann-54CFDD.22303801032007@news.giganews.com>
In article <d50fu29082dvtfbmb3p4s5ng30352to22a@4ax.com>,
Michael Gray <mikegray@newsguy.com> wrote:
Cassini snaps Saturn from a dizzying height
20:28 01 March 2007
NewScientist.com news service
Kelly Young
http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11289&feedId=online-news_rss2
0
or
http://tinyurl.com/39oge6
"Saturn and its golden rings appear in dizzying new images taken
by the Cassini spacecraft as it flew high above the planet's poles.
“Finally, here are the views that we’ve waited years for,” says
Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team leader at the Space Science
Institute in Boulder, Colorado, US.
“Sailing high above Saturn and seeing the rings spread out beneath us
like a giant, copper medallion is like exploring an alien world we’ve
never seen before. It just doesn’t look like the same place," she
continues. "It’s so utterly breathtaking, it almost gives you
vertigo.”
I posted that one too. Great shots!
It deserves to be posted a hundred times!
The images, and the spine tingling emotion behind the whole vast
project, so exceed, in majesty, any pissy little parochial terrestrial
god.
Of course the fundies will look at it and say, "Isn't our god great?"
and rational people will look at the same picture and say "Isn't science
great?". I didn't see their god skating around on the rings.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Contact - Throw a .net over the .com
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