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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. Where is the sound? by madsenj37 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Kidding.

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    1. Re:Where is the sound? by ibsteve2u · · Score: 3, Funny

      That silence you hear is the RIAA.

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    2. Re:Where is the sound? by houghi · · Score: 3, Funny

      Your joke is better then mine. The only thing I could come up with was: "I would like to see a movie of Uranus."

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  2. Re:Nice summary. by Jesus_666 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, like sugarplum fairies who are roughly spherical, made of rock, have a mass of several quadrillion tons and are orbiting a gas giant. If you consider that, the comparison is very apt.

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  3. 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.

  4. 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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  5. Almost as impressive as the mission itself by Xeoz · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This mission was launched back in 1997. It didn't reach Saturn until 2004. Way back, in the days of yore (1997) the internet was just going mainstream, no one had a digital camera and a to get processing power equivalent to today's average desktop would require a room full of computers. I can't wait to see the results of the latest solar system explorers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens