The Big Picture has gorgeous shots taken by the Cassini probe. Above is Rhea.
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Cassini does a bit more zipping about the Saturn system.
Pretty pictures and conceptions abound.
Cute artist concept animation of the flyby - quite good
Map of Enceladus (click to embiggen - warning BIG - click to ZOOM)
Bonus:
Today's Pretty Picture of Rhea.
From last weekend (click to…
Backlit photo of Saturn taken by the Cassini probe.
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tags: Astronomy, backlit Saturn…
"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." -Mark Twain
Back before the telescope was invented, Saturn was known as the Old Man of the Skies. The slowest-moving of the naked-eye planets, it's the only one that would reliably be in nearly the same location, year after…
HT to :: the
Core 4 :: for the link to the newest
href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08362">picture
of Saturn.
The complete image file is over 35MB. You would
need a 4088x2908 monitor to see the whole thing at full
resolution.
This is one where you have to use your…
Beautiful and amazing. I hope there are equivalent missions to Uranus and Neptune someday.