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Saturn at equinox


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Topic started on 20-10-2009 @ 07:01 AM by Ir0nM0nkey
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Saturn at equinox


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Checking in with NASA's Cassini spacecraft, our current emissary to Saturn, some 1.5 billion kilometers (932 million miles) distant from Earth, we find it recently gathering images of the Saturnian system at equinox. During the equinox, the sunlight casts long shadows across Saturn's rings, highlighting previously known phenomena and revealing a few never-before seen images. Cassini continues to orbit Saturn, part of its extended Equinox Mission, funded through through September 2010.
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reply posted on 20-10-2009 @ 07:01 AM by Ir0nM0nkey


"A proposal for a further extension is under consideration, one that would keep Cassini in orbit until 2017, ending with a spectacular series of orbits inside the rings followed by a suicide plunge into Saturn on Sept. 15, 2017."


Absolutely incredible pictures. These never cease to amaze me...

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reply posted on 20-10-2009 @ 07:44 AM by Moraz


Awesome pics, thanks for posting!



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reply posted on 20-10-2009 @ 08:32 AM by Illegal Alien


Absolutely mind blowing.
Thanks for posting this.
I wouldn't have been aware of it otherwise.
So much to discover, so little time in one lifetime.



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reply posted on 20-10-2009 @ 08:41 AM by havok


Good thread. Nice find!

These pictures are amazing. This kind of imagery is very strikingly detailed coming from billions of miles away.



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reply posted on 20-10-2009 @ 08:45 AM by mblahnikluver


Awesome pictures!! Saturn is probably the best looking planet with the coolest features! Rings and moons, I love it. This is my favorite pic from that site. Its just nuts how thin the rings are and how small the moon is in the ring. Awesome!




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reply posted on 20-10-2009 @ 09:50 AM by Nventual


Cool. The universe is sexy.



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reply posted on 20-10-2009 @ 11:37 AM by FORMe2p00p0n


Great find, thanks for posting it. I probably would have never come accross this info otherwise

Great shots of Saturn's moons.....

and to think this is the best picture we can take of our moon getting hit.

Mile high plume of lunar debris

funny she-ite



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reply posted on 20-10-2009 @ 01:02 PM by Ir0nM0nkey


They really are phenomenal pics - I just can't stop looking at them !



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reply posted on 20-10-2009 @ 02:10 PM by Gridnapper


Wow, those are amazing photographs. Does anyone know what type of camera they have on Cassini? It must take forever for it to transfer all of those images back to Earth.

Seeing the detail in these pictures makes me wonder why we don't have such detailed pictures of our own moon. Maybe they aren't worried about us seeing anything "off" in these photos.



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reply posted on 20-10-2009 @ 02:40 PM by Kantele


Wow, this pictures are mind blowing. Butit does make you wonder why we don't have pictures like this from our moon or the Cydonia site on Mars...

S&F



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reply posted on 20-10-2009 @ 02:47 PM by Solidus Green eye


Some of the pics have the stars cut out again.
Cool photographs!



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reply posted on 20-10-2009 @ 03:01 PM by theonlyrusty


Absolutely fantastic pictures..

Thanks for posting this.

Now my question becomes more relevant...

"Why can't they show me what's on our Moon"?

Seems weird........

peace



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reply posted on 20-10-2009 @ 03:16 PM by Soylent Green Is People


Originally posted by Solidus Green eye
Some of the pics have the stars cut out again.
Cool photographs!


It's also possible that because of the relative brightness of the subject matter, the exposure time was too short to capture the light of the stars.

If I went outside on the starriest of starry nights and took a picture of a streetlight bulb, the camera would need to be set to a short exposure time to see the streetlight without "overexposing" the bulb. That short exposure would not be long enough for me to capture the light from the stars.

Perhaps if the exposure time was set long enough to see the stars in these photos, the subject matter (Saturn, its moons and its rings) may be so overexposed as to not see any detail.

If the subject matter happens to be a dim moon, then perhaps the stars would show, because the exposure time would be longer.

In fact, the one photo of Titan where the stars really show up even mentions that Titan was being eclipsed by Saturn -- and therefore in Saturn's dark shadow. Obviously the exposure time was long with that photo.

Although the first picture is said to be a mosaic of 72 smaller photos, so it is possible that for that one any stars that showed on the image were removed -- or else there may have been stars that showed up multiple times in the mosaic, creating a pattern that would have detracted from the beauty of the image.


EDIT TO ADD:
Beautiful pictures, by the way, OP!


[edit on 10/20/2009 by Soylent Green Is People]



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reply posted on 20-10-2009 @ 03:22 PM by Chovy


Originally posted by mblahnikluver
Awesome pictures!! Saturn is probably the best looking planet with the coolest features! Rings and moons, I love it. This is my favorite pic from that site. Its just nuts how thin the rings are and how small the moon is in the ring. Awesome!




nice pictures... Those rings almost look artificial.



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reply posted on 20-10-2009 @ 03:39 PM by SaturnFX


Originally posted by Ir0nM0nkey
ending with a spectacular series of orbits inside the rings followed by a suicide plunge into Saturn



Why does this get me nervous?







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reply posted on 20-10-2009 @ 03:47 PM by LifENcircleS


Amazing post! These pictures are phenomenal to say the least! Definitely a flag on this one. I am an amateur astronomer myself and love looking at "The Giant" as I call it. These photos are a dream come true to a person like myself. Thank You!!!

LifENcircleS



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reply posted on 20-10-2009 @ 04:01 PM by Lichter daraus


Truly amazing pics. Thanks for that.
S&F for you.


PEACE!!!



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reply posted on 20-10-2009 @ 04:05 PM by Soylent Green Is People


Originally posted by SaturnFX
Originally posted by Ir0nM0nkey
ending with a spectacular series of orbits inside the rings followed by a suicide plunge into Saturn



Why does this get me nervous?



I may be wrong, but I don't think Cassini has enough fuel to achieve escape velocity from Saturn, anyway. Therefore based on the assertion it can't be sent "away" from Saturn, it will need to stay in orbit. However, someday it will run out of enough fuel to keep it in orbit and orbital drag will slow it down. At that point, it would then be destined to crash into Saturn (or perhaps one of its moons) anyway.

NASA may as well pick the time and place to take the plunge into Saturn rather than leaving that time and place to chance.



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reply posted on 20-10-2009 @ 04:13 PM by Solidus Green eye


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I checked the photographs in an picture editor, and I enhanced the lighting and the contrast. And you could clearly see that the stars were cut out.

I'll post the pics later on!



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