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Cassini Returns Amazing New Imagery from Saturn
SeaDour writes "The Cassini spacecraft has recently entered a highly-inclined orbit around Saturn, revealing some never-before-seen images of the planet's ring system as seen from above and below the planet. '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. It's so utterly breath-taking, it almost gives you vertigo.' The spacecraft will eventually return to its standard orbit parallel to the ring plane in late June."
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"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
Do you want the extra-zoom pics with rings? (bet you didn't know Uranus had rings - squat over a mirror and be amazed)
seeing the rings spread out beneath us like a giant, copper medallion is like exploring an alien world we've never seen before.
Its too bad Mars (probably) doesn't have tangible rings. Because as they say, "if you can't support a medallion, you can't support a family". And if you can't support a family, then you must be a liberal arts major and trying to colonize Mars.
Or something
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
Just imagine...'Sailing high above Uranus and seeing the Uranus 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. It's so utterly breath-taking, it almost gives you vertigo.'
Cool archive
Check out that 4th photo caption. Damn Microsoft and their interplanetary advertising campaign!!!
There are two kinds of people: 1) those who start arrays with one and 1) those who start them with zero.
For once, somebody who actually *deserves* goatse
Table-ized A.I.
...planet. Y'know, it doesn't have the same ring(s) to it.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
What do Odysseus and a bunch of ./ers have in common?
They can both down a Ciclops.
Thanks, I'll be here all week.
Thanks to American taxpayers for footing a couple hundred million dollars for some great desktop backgrounds.
Am I the *only* one here who noticed the extensive glacial retreat evident when comparing these images to the ones from when it arrived in 2004?!?!?
Looks like a cheap photoshop effect to me..
It's not slashdotted, it's just the latency you get when you download a movie from Saturn. The round trip takes more than two hours, please be patient.
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey