Stunning new picture of Saturn

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09 Sep 2011, 12:35 pm

You guys seen this? I need to blow this up and make a poster to hang over my computer, use it to inspire some really deep/serene/crystalline dnb

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology- ... 33480.html

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09 Sep 2011, 12:49 pm

It's awesome that we now have the technology to bring us such pictures. :cool:

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09 Sep 2011, 2:11 pm

In my opinion, I wouldn't say 'Stunning', as I have seen similar images; but it is very symmetrical, granted.

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09 Sep 2011, 4:41 pm

The Cassini mission does not count because it was nuclear powered.

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09 Sep 2011, 5:50 pm

androbot2084 wrote:

The Cassini mission does not count because it was nuclear powered.

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09 Sep 2011, 5:54 pm

androbot2084 wrote:

The Cassini mission does not count because it was nuclear powered.

It uses a nuclear generator for its onboard systems. Its propulsion system is chemical powered.

Out around Saturn there is not much sunlight so using photovoltaic cells is not practical.

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09 Sep 2011, 5:57 pm

androbot2084 wrote:

The Cassini mission does not count because it was nuclear powered.

Umm...good call. I just unsaw it. :roll:

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09 Sep 2011, 6:04 pm

I have seen that, and yes, it's a dope picture

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07 Mar 2012, 9:50 pm

tremendous image!
brilliant!!

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08 Mar 2012, 12:07 am

Very cool. I wonder what Galileo would've thought if someone said to him, "in about 400 years were gonna have a camera out there to look at it up close!"

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08 Mar 2012, 3:40 am

Apple_in_my_Eye wrote:

Very cool. I wonder what Galileo would've thought if someone said to him, "in about 400 years were gonna have a camera out there to look at it up close!"

he mighta said something like "why did i have to be born in such a backward time?"

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13 Mar 2012, 8:19 pm

Apple_in_my_Eye wrote:

Very cool. I wonder what Galileo would've thought if someone said to him, "in about 400 years were gonna have a camera out there to look at it up close!"

He wouldve thought "WTF is a 'camera'"?
Cameras were not invented until the mid nineteenth centurey- long after his time.

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13 Mar 2012, 9:38 pm

androbot2084 wrote:

The Cassini mission does not count because it was nuclear powered.

Which means what, exactly? :lol:

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13 Mar 2012, 9:49 pm

abacacus wrote:

androbot2084 wrote:

The Cassini mission does not count because it was nuclear powered.

Which means what, exactly? :lol:

It means that Cassini was a 'play mission' and that these photos are a grand hallucination. :wink:

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15 Mar 2012, 9:49 am

androbot2084 wrote:

The Cassini mission does not count because it was nuclear powered.

Interplanetary space itself has a LOT more radiation than the small generator on Cassini.
Also, all the deep space probes are nuclear powered.
Anyhow, just because something is nuclear powered does not automatically make it "bad".
Nuclear power really has been unfairly demonized.

And the photo... very impressive.

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15 Mar 2012, 9:56 am

That photo doesn't look real.

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