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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.


61 posted on 09/30/2005 12:30:35 PM PDT by stevio (Red-Blooded American Male (NRA))
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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...


62 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.)
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To: farlander

Yea, looks like a captive asteroid or something...


63 posted on 09/30/2005 12:33:51 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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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?")
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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
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To: cogitator

like a spore?

Oh man I gotta dust off my old Fantanstic Four comic. I believe it was titled Worlds within Worlds.


66 posted on 09/30/2005 12:43:13 PM PDT by kinghorse
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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.


67 posted on 09/30/2005 12:44:01 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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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.

68 posted on 09/30/2005 12:54:02 PM PDT by cogitator
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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.


69 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.")
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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)
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To: 43north; dbwz

Pass that.

71 posted on 09/30/2005 12:57:46 PM PDT by cogitator
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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.")
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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?)
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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.


74 posted on 09/30/2005 1:00:13 PM PDT by stayathomemom
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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.)
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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.

76 posted on 09/30/2005 1:00:50 PM PDT by cogitator
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To: FormerACLUmember; cogitator

I think that reply was meant for cogitator, not me....


77 posted on 09/30/2005 1:01:15 PM PDT by mwyounce
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To: mwyounce; FormerACLUmember
I think that reply was meant for cogitator, not me....

I saw it. Thanks.

78 posted on 09/30/2005 1:02:43 PM PDT by cogitator
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To: cogitator

79 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.)
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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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