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Cassini Returns Amazing New Imagery from Saturn
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on Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:51 PM
from the extremely-attractive-planet dept.
from the extremely-attractive-planet dept.
SeaDour writes "The Cassini spacecraft has recently entered a highly-inclined orbit around Saturn, revealing some never-before-seen images of the planet's ring system as seen from above and below the planet. 'Sailing high above Saturn and seeing the rings spread out beneath us like a giant, copper medallion is like exploring an alien world we've never seen before. It just doesn't look like the same place. It's so utterly breath-taking, it almost gives you vertigo.' The spacecraft will eventually return to its standard orbit parallel to the ring plane in late June."
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Vertigo? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Vertigo? (Score:5, Informative)
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Let's start looking at economically (Score:3, Interesting)
Parallel? Coplanar. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Parallel? Coplanar. (Score:5, Insightful)
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Slashdotted (Score:2)
Images hosted by NASA (Score:5, Informative)
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Other pics (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/media/2
Re:Other pics (Score:4, Funny)
They can both down a Ciclops.
Thanks, I'll be here all week.
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No colonizing mars (Score:2, Funny)
Its too bad Mars (probably) doesn't have tangible rings. Because as they say, "if you can't support a medallion, you can't support a family". And if you can't support a family, then you must be a liberal arts major and trying to colonize Mars.
Or something
*below* the planet ?!? (Score:2)
And where would that be exactly? Surely, by convention the probe is above the planet - wherever it is in its orbit?
That's not a moon! That's a... (Score:4, Funny)
Thanks to American taxpayers (Score:5, Funny)
pay attention! (Score:3, Funny)
Who cares about the rings! (Score:4, Interesting)
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/imag
Re:Forget Saturn (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Forget Saturn (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Walter Reed (Score:5, Informative)
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/overview/index.cfm [nasa.gov]
--ob
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Spare me your anti-American B.S. The U.S. has been a leader in modern technology for a long time. Europe and China provided the foundation for mechanical and chemical engineering. The bulk of modern electrical engineering came from the U.S.
The computer you typed your post on almost certainly used a CPU made by an American company, for example. Intel, AMD, Cyrix/NatSemi... the only major one I'm aware of that is not a U.S. company is VIA (Japanese company). The first microprocessors were invented appr
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Re:Better photos (Score:5, Funny)
Check out that 4th photo caption. Damn Microsoft and their interplanetary advertising campaign!!!
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