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The Saturn Fly-By

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @03:07AM from the nice-place-to-visit dept.

Jamie noted that today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is actually a video of Saturn built by compiling actual photographs taken by Cassini in 2004. Unlike most videos of this type, this isn't actually 3D animation, these are the actual photos (albeit "digitally tweaked, cropped"). Great views of the planet, as well as Titan, Mimas and Enceladus.

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Re:That's no moon... by camperdave · 2011-03-15 03:55 · Score: 5, Funny

You're asking a forum full of nerds who collectively have seen Star Wars over a trillion times if we noticed that Mimas looks like the Death Star? Are you out of your gourd?

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It's as fake as the Moon landing! by Anonymous Coward · 2011-03-15 04:21 · Score: 1, Funny

They didn't even get the disc in 3D while flying through them - this is AT BEST a 3D rendering with TEXTURES taken from the Cassini flyby - though frankly its so bad and yet marketed otherwise in a fashion that makes me call in question whether or not "Cassini" was real or just a ploy to disguise a nuclear satellite. And I (before seeing this) thought the Moon landing was real!