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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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Engineering is the art of compromise.
I mean, its neat and all, but is showing a different perspective, that really provides no new information, really worth all those over-the-top effusive words? "Alien world we've never seen before"? Or just one we have seen before, but from a 45 degree different angle?
I want new pictures of Uranus
Wouldn't the 'equatorial' orbit be coplanar with the rings, not parallel?
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Go here http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/index .cfm
to get bigger and more images from NASA, instead of the currently ddo.. I mean /.ed news sites.
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The linked photo site was almost immediately Slashdotted so I'm not sure what they contained, but there are pictures on NASA's site here:
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/media/2
The site seems about 10 seconds from being fully /.ed, better photos available from NASA anyway.
Full size image
Cool archive
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Forget the crappy "ciclops" site, try NASA...x .cfm
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/inde
Seriously, you couldnt find a better place to link to thank xinhua, the mouthpiece of the chinese communist party?
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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
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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.
I suspect that the term "parallel" was chosen because "coplanar" isn't as widely understood among the general public. When writing press-releases they have to strike a delicate balance between complete accuracy and comprehension. There's a sort of perverse Heisenberg Uncertainty principle at play, there.
And where would that be exactly? Surely, by convention the probe is above the planet - wherever it is in its orbit?
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They're killing for money, in places they have no business being in. Fuck, if we founds aliens on Saturn you can bet the pricks would find a reason to kill them too. No sympathy for professional murderers.
...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)
That's it, I've had it with the crappy views down here, I'm moving to Saturn!
How do you tell above vs. below in the context?
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Great site to gain insight into the way the Chinese view the world. The site is not that radical really, I'm sure they don't allow everything, but it is not bad. Try fox news for mouthpieces of dicataorships
Isn't Cassini the name of a Sega Saturn emulator?
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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?!?!?
...fly that thing into one of the more placid ring planes and really get attention.
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Can we determine the best way to make artificial shepherd moons to steer the particles into large ore harvesting facilities? Let's get this space colonization started, wooooo! Seriously, are rings and planets around gas giants good places to setup shop for the outer solar system? I mean Titan alone can provide billions of tons of methane.
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Now this is more "amazing" to me:e -details.cfm?imageID=2502
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/imag
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Fox is a nice example of freedom. Everybody (in the EU) know it.
Anyone ever wondered how nicely cutted news people at US get?
chinese? don't mix up chinese with the chinese communist party. There are other chinese as well. People in Taiwan, Hong Kong and the diaspora hardly view the world like the communist mainland chinese. Your comment is borderline racist you do know that right?
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
oh i wasnt aware of the fact that foxnews was an arm of the government and the only news source in the country. thanks for enlightening me. I wonder what that CBS, NBC,MSNBC, ABC, CNN stuff means.
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
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Can we determine the best way to make artificial shepherd moons to steer the particles into large ore harvesting facilities?
Yes, if we have about another century of experience with robotic spacecraft. Of course, we won't get that if we burn most of our space budget on joy rides to the moon and Mars, both of which will likely get canceled before they ever get off the ground.
The only reason Saturn, Mars, and Earth would all warm up simultaneously would be from changes in solar output, which would endanger the grants of hundreds of atmospheric scientists who've bet their (and their grad students) careers on the cause being atmospheric CO2!
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Dang, I wish I paid for the cheap, discounted space agency you apparently contract out to for great desktop backgrounds! The Cassini project actually will cost about 3.2 billion dollars. (Portions paid in Euros, because our friends in Europe decided that they, too, had too much taxpayer money on hand). See: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/faq/mission.cfm
(Incidentally, 3.2 billion is also how much karma I have lost for pasting that link on Cassini stories. Let no one say that I'm unwilling to sacrifice for science.)
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Well at least not by the carbon-based sentient life forms on the 3rd planet from the sun in this very same solar system.
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Interesting to see the planet from a new angle...
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Unless the spaceship is extraordinarily busy, they should be capturing movies of their orbits over the poles. On at least one orbit, they should capture color, wide angle mosaics of the entire planet during the entire orbit and reconstruct a wide field orbit movie. Such a movie would be over 4000x4000 resolution and when projected in IMAX, possibly the most amazing sight humans have ever had.
The same thing should be done on Mars, with the rovers shooting an entire day of wide angle mosaics to reconstruct a timelapse movie of a day on Mars.
Of course, they won't have the imagination or the clockcycles to do it.