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Cassini's Got Pictures And Data

Posted by Zonk on from the mmmm-data dept.

MythMoth writes "To celebrate the anniversary of the Cassini-Huygens probe's orbital insertion, NASA's JPL has a set of fifteen amazing photos from the past year. Meanwhile, the BBC reports that some of the latest science data from the mission reveals that Saturn's ring system has its own (thin) O2 atmosphere, and that the planet's rotation seems to be slowing!"

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  1. He said "insertion" ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    To celebrate the anniversary of the Cassini-Huygens probe's orbital insertion ...

    Hell, this is /., we'll celebrate anyone's insertion. Call me for the explosion.

  2. Death Star! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Vote for the Death Star (you can figure out which one I mean)

    1. Re:Death Star! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      That's no moon!"

    2. Re:Death Star! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      That's no Death Star.

    3. Re:Death Star! by neo1k · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh my God! - it's full of stars!

  3. rotation by dpille · · Score: 4, Funny

    the planet's rotation seems to be slowing!

    Of course it is. We keep using it to boost our spacecraft.

  4. Coming Soon! by PHAEDRU5 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Texas-sized comet, accidentally knocked off-kilter by NASA probe, hits....

    T E X A S

    !!!!!

    Yeah, baby, yeaaaah!

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  5. thin atmosphere by haakondahl · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wouldn't that be an atmotorus?

    Yeah, yeah -1 Pedant...

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  6. Re:O2 Atmosphere + Water by frankthechicken · · Score: 3, Funny

    Agreed, I still find it amazing that we can send these probes out into space, take some photographs, send the images back to planet earth and see the beauty of our solar system whilst sitting in a comfy chair.

    I also find it amazing that no matter where we travel nowadays we always find the need to take photographs and there is always one picture with a fingerprint blocking the view.