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Cassini Returns Amazing New Imagery from Saturn

Posted by Zonk on from the extremely-attractive-planet dept.

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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  1. xinhua? by minus_273 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Seriously, you couldnt find a better place to link to thank xinhua, the mouthpiece of the chinese communist party?

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    1. Re:xinhua? by minus_273 · · Score: -1, Troll

      while we are linking to mouthpieces of dictatorships, why not the mouth piece of a german neo nazi group?

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      The war with islam is a war on the beast
      The war on terror is a war for peace
  2. Walter Reed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I can't believe that we are wasting money on this useless crap while our injured soldiers are suffering.

    However, what makes me even angrier, is knowing that people from outside the US have access to our photos, while they keep on accusing us of every wrong in the world. Here's a tip: the USA is the greatest country in the world in all of the history of humanity. It is the source of modern civilization and everything good in it. Thanks.

    1. Re:Walter Reed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I can't believe we are spending money having our soldiers fight and get injured in a useless crap war when we could be doing science.

      However, what makes me even angrier is knowing that the people we are fighting against in Iraq did not even attack us before we attacked them. Heres a tip: we were wrong. Thanks.

  3. Re:pay attention! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I suppose that's due to the SUVs here on Earth too right? STFU you liberal moonbat. Man isn't to blame for everything. Sometimes nature just does stuff like that. Idiot.

  4. I am Essjay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I am posting this from behind Tor due to a concern for my life. The truth is that I am a member of the Gay Nigger Assocation of America. This is both a religion and a lifestyle for me, and I was working my way up to the top of Wikipedia as a sleeper agent to be used in a time of need.

    My role for the GNAA was to rig the structure of Wikipedia like a chain of dominoes, so that when the time was right our leader could push over the first one of sorts, in whichever form it might take, merely by erecting his black member; we would replace every article with an icon, and make national news in the process.

    I tell all of you this as my failure has re-inspired my belief in god, and in the idea that one day that white men such as many of us might not all end up as dead, uprooted links in the ultimate evolution of the human race. Thank you and god bless.