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A remarkable Cassini picture: Hyperion (moon of Saturn)
Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan ^
| 09/30/2005
| Cassini
Posted on 09/30/2005 11:29:53 AM PDT by cogitator
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cassini; huygens; hyperion; mission; moon; saturn; science; strange; titan; weird
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To: cogitator
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posted on
09/30/2005 11:37:44 AM PDT
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: dirtboy
Yeah, that will be a fun one to explain. How does a moon, even a small one like this, absorb an impact capable of cratering 75% of its diameter and NOT shatter? The size of the crater versus the size of the moon seems impossible.
To: cogitator
That moon looks like a piece of coral I picked up off a FL beach many, many years ago.
Very cool stuff!
23
posted on
09/30/2005 11:39:05 AM PDT
by
dbwz
To: cogitator
How far away is this moon?
24
posted on
09/30/2005 11:40:32 AM PDT
by
RexBeach
("The rest of the world is three drinks behind." -Humphrey Bogart)
To: cogitator
bump--thanks for the post
25
posted on
09/30/2005 11:40:38 AM PDT
by
Mamzelle
To: stevio
"Electrons orbit the nucleus the way the planets orbit the sun. God's construction is simply yet complex."
No, they don't. That old image of atomic structure has been known to be false for a long, long time. It used to be the simple form that atomic structure was taught to grammar school children, but they don't even teach that to them any more.
There's no similarity between a solar system and an atom, really. Time to do some reading, my friend.
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posted on
09/30/2005 11:41:09 AM PDT
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: cogitator
Awesome snowboarding down the walls of that big impact crater, dude!
To: cogitator
When I first looked at the image, I saw what appeared to be many stretching artifacts that often come from 2D data being extrapolated onto a 3D model, as is common with many of the images from mars.
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/image-details.cfm?imageID=1762
What I found interesting is that this photo was a "live shot". The stretched walls of the smaller crater transitioning into the edge of the larger one must actually exist.
It's amazing, really. If you follow the "moons are collections from rings" theory as I do, this is a living example of a moon 1/2 way through the debris collection phase.
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posted on
09/30/2005 11:41:25 AM PDT
by
ChadGore
(VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
To: cogitator
This is your brain on drugs.
To: cogitator
That's a heckuva photo. I think it's my next wallpaper.
30
posted on
09/30/2005 11:42:07 AM PDT
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: cogitator
To: PatrickHenry; RadioAstronomer
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posted on
09/30/2005 11:43:45 AM PDT
by
js1138
(Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
To: Arthalion
Flying objects out in space have no weight only the gravity of the body they hit imparts weightiness to the projectile, so an impact would not be as shattering hitting a small chunk of stuff like this as it would if it hit the earth for instance.
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posted on
09/30/2005 11:43:48 AM PDT
by
aspiring.hillbilly
(!...The Confederate States of America rises again...!)
To: cogitator
Amazing ... looks very small as moons go.
34
posted on
09/30/2005 11:44:35 AM PDT
by
layman
(Card Carrying Infidel)
To: cogitator
It took a minute for what it looked like to come to the surface. It looks like a wasps nest.
I don't think we need to go to Saturn.
35
posted on
09/30/2005 11:44:49 AM PDT
by
Tennessee_Bob
("Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! We willna be fooled again!")
To: stevio
Electrons orbit the nucleus the way the planets orbit the sun. God's construction is simply yet complex.Actually, no they don't. Electrons whizz around the nucleus in clouds of probability distributions, which can get quite complex as the number of electrons increases.
Eh, if you want to attribute that to God, then fine. They are pretty cool.
36
posted on
09/30/2005 11:45:48 AM PDT
by
jennyp
(WHAT I'M READING NOW: my sterling prose)
To: RexBeach
It orbits Saturn, and the outermost "large" moon.
37
posted on
09/30/2005 11:46:01 AM PDT
by
Crazieman
(6-23-2005, Establishment of the United Socialist States of America)
To: cogitator
Isn't it amazing the amount of similarities there are in nature? Especially moving from the micro to the macro.
Just another example of intelligent design.
38
posted on
09/30/2005 11:46:52 AM PDT
by
43north
(If you're not liberal at 20 you have no heart. If you're still liberal at 40 you have no brain.)
To: jennyp
39
posted on
09/30/2005 11:47:47 AM PDT
by
jennyp
(WHAT I'M READING NOW: my sterling prose)
To: cogitator
Looks like a dirty sponge to me.
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