Saturn In All Its Glory

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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Re:Popularity of space stuff based on replies by argStyopa · 2013-10-17 04:40 · Score: 4, Interesting

^beat me to it.
I was simply going to post:
Climate change: 8957 posts.
Android app about sex: 3692 posts
Republicans are poopy heads: 1244 posts
Post about an absolutely stunning image from a brilliantly-designed massive probe doing amazing work in the depths of space at LEAST a light-hour away from our planet: 34 posts.

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