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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)

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

    Wouldn't that be an atmotorus?

    Yeah, yeah -1 Pedant...

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