Saturn from Hubble and Cassini - mind-boggling

Planetary Photojournal ^ | May 26, 2004

[BykrBayb]

You gotta see this.

[Diogenesis]

[cogitator]

Look at the moon in the bottom right of the lower picture.... Really puts Saturn's size into perspective.

I missed that until you pointed it out and then I read the caption. It's Enceladus.

Saturn's moon Enceladus

The equatorial radius of Enceladus is 250 km, to provide a size "scale" for the image.

[freedumb2003]

Too cool for school bump

[dyed_in_the_wool]

At least not until Jupiter becomes another sun...
*cue 'Also Sprach Zarathustra'*

[Professional Engineer]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[k2blader]

Gorgeous creations of God!

[Renegade]

So we can refuel and fly to Uranus..

[Lurker]

For later, and thanks.

L

[Conservative4Ever]

WOW

Years ago my son with his back yard telescope let me have a look at Saturn. It was tiny in the eye piece, but wow then too.

Red

[RadioAstronomer]

>Shermy; "Get the way back machine"<

I remember sitting in the mission control room at JPL during the Voyager Neptune encounter and watching the images build pixel by pixel on the large screens at the back of the control room in real-time.

[gargoyle]

...You had to start with the jokes, Nothings sacred here, not even Uranus...

[Vince Ferrer]

The planetarium at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science was redone last year. Out went the old style center projector, and in is the new SGI supercomputer based projection screens. The star show was a trip from Pluto back to Earth. You fly through and around the rings of Saturn, in scenes like these picture, except they are in 3D, move, and fill your entire field of view. The images for that show were taken from Hubble and other probes. It rocked.