Saturn In All Its Glory

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Posted by timothy on Thursday October 17, 2013 @02:05AM from the all-hail-the-hypnotoad dept.

The Bad Astronomer writes "On Oct. 10, 2013, the Cassini spacecraft took a series of wide-angle pictures of Saturn from well above the plane of the rings. Croatian software developer and amateur astronomical image processor Gordan Ugarkovic assembled them into a stunning mosaic (mirrored on Flickr), showing the planet from a high angle not usually seen. There's a lot to see in this image, including the rings (and the gaps therein), moons, and the planet itself, including the remnants of a monstrous northern hemisphere storm that kicked off in 2010. It's truly wondrous."

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Any sign of the Fithp? by rossdee · 2013-10-17 02:14 · Score: 3, Funny

Can you see Thuktun Flishithy ?
Re:SATURN !! THE GOD OF WAR !! by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2013-10-17 02:33 · Score: 4, Funny

All right now !! The bringer of !!
Well, you can see the Hexagon quite clearly in this picture. They sure can show off their bigger defense budget.

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No stars by cyberjock1980 · 2013-10-17 02:34 · Score: 5, Funny

ZOMG There's no stars. This must be a NASA staged event and didn't really happen... on the moon.
FAKE! by Chelloveck · 2013-10-17 02:41 · Score: 5, Funny

FAKE! Come on, this thing is obviously 'shopped like crazy. The shadow on the rings is much to crisp compared to the shadow on the planet. Plus the ring shadow is entirely opaque. To make it realistic they should have given it some transparency so you could see the rings faintly behind it. Also, there's color banding in the "planet", and some weird hexagonal artifact that looks like this thing was originally rendered as a 3D model with bad tessellation. Go back to drawing Tippy to get into art school, you pathetic hack.

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Re:About that hexagonal polar vortex... by JustOK · 2013-10-17 03:17 · Score: 4, Funny

As long as he's in the space time continuum

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