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Phoebe Pictures Released
EccentricAnomaly writes "NASA has begun to release some pictures from Cassini's Phoebe flyby last Friday. If you look at the thumbnail of this image or if you look at the right of these images, you can see a group of craters that look like a skull just south of the equator and something that looks like George Washington (wearing his wig) near the north pole. Come up with some good names for features, and you can submit your ideas to the IAU. There's a process for naming a newly discovered crater, fossa, or sulcus. By the way, the naming convention for Phoebe is people associated with Phoebe or the Greek islands."
I wonder how many "good names" these guys go through for each of these features. I wonder how long NASA spends discussing and debating them. I wonder how much of our tax payer dollars are effectively pissed away. Just have one guy name the damn features and get back to work.
Life resembling art is either a coincidence or due to the art using designs similar to what happens in reality. In this case, the symmetry of a dot in the center can be due to several natural processes.
Well get on a plane and travel the earth - there is more unbelievably beautiful and amazing stuff here than anyone could see in 10 lifetimes, go to Ko Phi Phi in Thailand, Inis Mór in Ireland, see the Pyramids, Yosemite, sail the Chang Jiang etc etc etc etc or you could sit by your computer and wish your life away in some space travelling dreamland........your choice
There are 10 different kinds of people, those who understand binary and those who do not
Not being a native English speaker, could someone clear this up for me? How do you pronounce Phoebe?
Since it's not named after the character from the TV Series "Friends", but after an old greek goddess, it is completely irrelevant how the america-centric Slashdot crowd pronounces it. I'm from Germany, we say "Föbe", with Umlaut, but only the Gods know what the old Greek said. Or maybe a classical philologist.
In any case, the english pronounciation "Fee-Bee" is most probably totally wrong.
You can see a group of craters that look like a skull just south of the equator and something that looks like George Washington (wearing his wig) near the north pole.
Is this really the most important/interesting thing that Slashdot can tell us about the Phoebe mission so far? What next, a bulletin about a cloud that is shaped like a bunny rabbit?
The most rabid believers in American Exceptionalism are the exact same people whose policies are destroying it.
exactly.
And this is just single, stupid, run-of-the-mill moon. How many breathtaking images can be taken throughout our solar system? Orange sunsets on Titan? dust storms on Mars?
Space has the appeal because it is there. That is why I think space tourism is real. People will go and pay for the opportunity to see this.
Will it be beyond our capability to launch a space hotel into long comet-like elliptical orbits?
You should have stopped that list at Lincoln...