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CASSINI MISSION - The Women of Saturn
DER SPIEGEL ^
| January 20, 2006
| Ansbert Kneip
Posted on 01/21/2006 9:49:47 AM PST by Atlantic Bridge
More than 1.3 billion kilometers away from Earth, the Cassini space probe is beaming back sensational images of Saturn and its moons. Two women have been particularly crucial to the mission's success: one is controlling the craft and the other is taking pictures.
(Excerpt) Read more at service.spiegel.de ...
TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: cassini; moon; saturn
To: Atlantic Bridge
Women of Saturn! I was thinking of something like this...
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posted on
01/21/2006 9:59:14 AM PST
by
Dark Skies
("A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants." -- Churchill)
To: Dark Skies
Tell this the girls from NASA...
To: Dark Skies
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posted on
01/21/2006 10:12:41 AM PST
by
martin_fierro
(00111100 00100000 01111100 00111010 00101001 01111110)
To: Atlantic Bridge
Caption of the picture at lower-left is: "Saturn on July 19, 2005 as seen from a distance of 1.4 million kilometers."
This is Saturn? I don't think I've ever seen a picture where the lines of the cloud bands were not parallel with the plane of the rings.
ML/NJ
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posted on
01/21/2006 10:34:11 AM PST
by
ml/nj
To: ml/nj
That is obviously Jupiter which shows that German journalists are just as stupid as American ones.
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posted on
01/21/2006 10:37:03 AM PST
by
43north
(Liberals are obsessed by the vulgarity of their lives & the obscenity of their behavior.)
To: 43north
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posted on
01/21/2006 10:39:15 AM PST
by
43north
(Liberals are obsessed by the vulgarity of their lives & the obscenity of their behavior.)
To: ml/nj
those aren't cloud bands, they are the shadows of the rings projected onto the planet's atmosphere
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posted on
01/21/2006 12:33:45 PM PST
by
bravo whiskey
(everybody's shot. drive the truck)
To: bravo whiskey; ml/nj
those aren't cloud bands, they are the shadows of the rings projected onto the planet's atmosphere You beat me to the post on the answer, but I have to chime in and say that what the picture really is of is really quite amazing.
Ansel Adams has to be loving this stuff!
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posted on
01/21/2006 12:41:10 PM PST
by
Phsstpok
(There are lies, damned lies, statistics and presentation graphics, in descending order of truth)
To: bravo whiskey; Phsstpok
those aren't cloud bands, they are the shadows of the rings projected onto the planet's atmosphere I don't know.
You can see how the shadow of the rings falls pretty clearly in the photo at the upper-left in the post that begins this thread.
Maybe this is due to different times in Saturn's day?
ML/NJ
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posted on
01/21/2006 1:27:35 PM PST
by
ml/nj
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