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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. 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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  2. 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.

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

    That silence you hear is the RIAA.

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  4. 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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