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Out of the blue, Saturn reveals its true colours (stunning photo)
The Australian ^
| February 10, 2005
| Leigh Dayton, Science writer
Posted on 02/09/2005 11:30:14 AM PST by dead
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posted on
02/09/2005 11:30:14 AM PST
by
dead
To: dead
Huh? I thought it was always depicted as light orangish like Jupiter?
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posted on
02/09/2005 11:34:09 AM PST
by
sam_paine
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To: dead
Besides being a cool photo, it demonstrates how enormous saturn is, since it was taken nearly 900,000 miles away.
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posted on
02/09/2005 11:34:55 AM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: dead
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posted on
02/09/2005 11:35:15 AM PST
by
68skylark
To: dead
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posted on
02/09/2005 11:35:22 AM PST
by
spodefly
(Yo, homey ... Is that my briefcase?)
To: sam_paine
Maybe its a "mood planet" and is unusually complacent at this time.
Seriously, this is supposedly true color, so the old images were obviously inaccurate. Probably color-enhanced incorrectly.
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posted on
02/09/2005 11:36:03 AM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
The new blue view was snapped by the Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on January 18, at a distance of roughly 1.4million kilometres from Saturn. Holy cow! Look at the size of the ring in comparison to the size of the rings. A really beautiful picture.
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posted on
02/09/2005 11:37:43 AM PST
by
retrokitten
(By Grabthar's hammer, by the sons of Worvan, you shall be avenged.)
To: dead; Dales; GraniteStateConservative; deport; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj
Bahhh! Blue. Kerry country. [Pttuey!]
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posted on
02/09/2005 11:42:09 AM PST
by
Coop
(In memory of a true hero - Pat Tillman)
To: retrokitten
How much money have we spent on NASA, and all we get are these pictures?
If this were a private enterprise, we'd have been to the Jupiter and Saturn already, and the asteroid belt would be gone after we have mined them all out. ;)
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posted on
02/09/2005 11:45:29 AM PST
by
Frohickey
To: dead
To: dead
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posted on
02/09/2005 11:48:59 AM PST
by
iceskater
(Madness takes it toll. Please have exact change ready.)
To: dead
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posted on
02/09/2005 11:50:24 AM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
To: dead
Blue, huh? Maybe a lot of those who are blue and unhappy with the President's re-election would like to move here.
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posted on
02/09/2005 11:51:01 AM PST
by
doug from upland
(I would trust Stevie Wonder to give me a ride before I'd trust Ted Kennedy)
To: Dog Gone
Besides being a cool photo, it demonstrates how enormous saturn is, since it was taken nearly 900,000 miles away.Just... wow.
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posted on
02/09/2005 11:51:16 AM PST
by
TChris
(Most people's capability for inference is severely overestimated)
To: dead
Well that's what bugged me about the darn Mars rover pictures! They kept "enhancing" them to get the "true color". Wish they'd just duct tape a darn CCD USB webcam to a strut and send that back raw!
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posted on
02/09/2005 11:52:28 AM PST
by
sam_paine
(X .................................)
To: dead
HuH? I was expecting to see a new Ion with a V8 and all wheel drive!
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posted on
02/09/2005 11:52:36 AM PST
by
SGCOS
To: Frohickey
If this were a private enterprise, we'd have been to the Jupiter and Saturn already...You'd have to leave me out of the "we". I don't like to fly on Earth the thought of flying into space makes me dizzy! LOL!!
Although, I think a private group to investigate space would be really interesting and you are probably right, we would see results much, much faster.
Oh! Maybe we could use it to our conservative advantage. Start strip mining on planets. Libs HATE strip mining. They go to said planet to protest and they are out of our hair for a good looooong while! ;-)
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posted on
02/09/2005 11:52:50 AM PST
by
retrokitten
(By Grabthar's hammer, by the sons of Worvan, you shall be avenged.)
Comment #18 Removed by Moderator
To: dead
Saturn appears as cream colored in my little refractor.
To: dead
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posted on
02/09/2005 11:57:03 AM PST
by
Betis70
(I'm only Left Wing when I play hockey)
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