http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/03/01/saturn.rings.ap/index.html
What can I say but… wow!
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/03/01/saturn.rings.ap/index.html
What can I say but… wow!
As Eddie Izzard would say, awesome in the dictionary sense of the word.
I just got my first look at Saturn through my telescope back home and it looked like the emblem for the Sci-fi channel compared to that. Still, not bad for a £40 telescope, thanks Dad!
Edit: Slight hijack, a related article on CNN;
AP: We ignored Paris Hilton,
• Associated Press tried blackout on Paris Hilton news
• Not much “news,” but no AP clients asked what was up, either
• Reaction was mostly positive
Check out the JPL Cassini Mission Home Page. They have remarkable images of Saturn and its moons all over the place. One of my recent favorites is this radar image of a lake on Titan. My current desktop background, in fact, is this fantastic image of Titan and Saturn, although I rotated it left 90° first.
Saturn, and Paris Hilton. Talk about “from the sublime to the ridiculous”!
They have a much bigger version of the picture in the OP’s CNN story here, along with a cool little video of the view from Cassini as it orbits Saturn, showing the rings “flattening” during transit.
First one to make a “heavenly bodies” crack gets a well-deserved kick in the ass.
What about “heavenly crack”?
OK, so this is off the topic of the thread but too weird not to share. I was reading this thread and got this from my sister in my email:
She hit a deer and is car shopping. But come on - view of Saturn -> Saturn VUE. That’s just creepy.