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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: MineralMan
I guess I'm showing my age.
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posted on
09/30/2005 12:30:35 PM PDT
by
stevio
(Red-Blooded American Male (NRA))
To: dbwz
It actually looked a lot WORSE than Hyperion because it had all these spikes jutting out from the main part. It was about 3mm long and 1mm in diameter. I was surprised that the patient was able to pass it. Maybe the morphine and 5 liters of IV fluids helped a little...
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posted on
09/30/2005 12:32:15 PM 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: farlander
Yea, looks like a captive asteroid or something...
To: HamiltonJay
Further proof that we've never seen any benefits from the U.S. space program.
64
posted on
09/30/2005 12:35:59 PM PDT
by
coolconsideratemen
("All right Franklin, out with it - what new intrigue are you working on?")
To: 43north
OWWWW... spikes?!? I need some morphine just thinking about it. ;-)
65
posted on
09/30/2005 12:39:29 PM PDT
by
dbwz
To: cogitator
like a spore?
Oh man I gotta dust off my old Fantanstic Four comic. I believe it was titled Worlds within Worlds.
To: coolconsideratemen
Yea, that cell phone you use and the other communications systems that link the world instantaneously have nothing to do with discoveries that came out of the space program.... be serious.
To: RexBeach
From Saturn: 920,000 miles (1.5 million km)
From Earth, it's about as far away as Saturn: minimum about 1200 million km, maximum about 1650 million km.
To: dbwz
That moon looks like a piece of coral I picked up off a FL beach many, many years ago.
I thought it looked like a close-up view of a crushed up honey-comb.
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posted on
09/30/2005 12:55:51 PM PDT
by
yankeedame
("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
To: cogitator
Thanks for your note.
My God, a picture of that clarity at 920-thousand-miles. That is remarkable!
70
posted on
09/30/2005 12:57:20 PM PDT
by
RexBeach
("The rest of the world is three drinks behind." -Humphrey Bogart)
To: 43north; dbwz
Pass that.
To: TravisBickle
I'll see you and raise you one...
72
posted on
09/30/2005 12:58:51 PM PDT
by
yankeedame
("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
To: cogitator
It's "astronomy" not astrology ;)
73
posted on
09/30/2005 12:59:13 PM PDT
by
Sometimes A River
(Will the next President inherit George W. Bush's hurricane making machine?)
To: cogitator
If I were to send this picture to my younger daughter she would have a phobic response to it. It's just the sort of thing that gives her the creeps.
To: cogitator
75
posted on
09/30/2005 1:00:50 PM PDT
by
Dont_Tread_On_Me_888
(Bush's #1 priority Africa. #2 priority appease Fox and Mexico . . . USA priority #64.)
To: RexBeach
My God, a picture of that clarity at 920-thousand-miles. That is remarkable!Now that you said that, I misunderstood your question. Cassini was 38,000 miles away from Hyperion when the picture was taken. Still pretty good clarity at that distance; maximum feature size in the picture is 362 meters/1200 feet.
To: FormerACLUmember; cogitator
I think that reply was meant for cogitator, not me....
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posted on
09/30/2005 1:01:15 PM PDT
by
mwyounce
To: mwyounce; FormerACLUmember
I think that reply was meant for cogitator, not me....I saw it. Thanks.
To: cogitator
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posted on
09/30/2005 1:03:29 PM PDT
by
Dont_Tread_On_Me_888
(Bush's #1 priority Africa. #2 priority appease Fox and Mexico . . . USA priority #64.)
To: yankeedame
I thought it looked like a close-up view of a crushed up honey-comb.I was thinking more along the lines of a paper wasp's nest...
80
posted on
09/30/2005 1:05:05 PM PDT
by
mwyounce
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