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Amazing New Movies of Saturn's Moons

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that's-a-lot-of-flowery-words dept.

RobGoldsmith writes "Like sugar plum fairies in 'The Nutcracker,' the moons of Saturn performed a celestial ballet before the eyes of NASA's Cassini spacecraft. New movies frame the moons' silent dance against the majestic sweep of the planet's rings and show as many as four moons gliding around one another."

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  1. Original video by Random+Data · · Score: 3, Informative

    TFA has a Youtube link. A higher resolution Quicktime is here . In Space no one can hear you Troisieme.

  2. Here's a better link by ctmurray · · Score: 2, Informative

    The original link was not working for me, here is a more direct route

    1. Re:Here's a better link by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Informative

      This is the link with the "Sugar Plum" song embedded that the original post referred to:

      http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/whycassini/cassini20091223.html

      The center right box has the Quicktime link. It shows 4 different sequences.
         

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