Aimless In Space
--J.B.S. Haldane--
Rachael - Detroit - WSU
Mad Scientist-in-Training
Clastrophysicist (Classics/Astronomy/Physics)
This is my super spectacular (mostly) space blog!! I also enjoy math, Doctor Who, Supernatural, Cowboy Bebop, Fullmetal Alchemist, jellyfish, Detroit, Futurama, and cats.
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Flawless people 46/50: Gina Torres
“It’s a throwback to see women still in these subservient roles. They were part of...
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Grayton State Park Florida: May 18th, 2013
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On our way to Six Flags. Gonna talk myself into riding roller coasters again.
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Huge “Snowballs” Seen Piercing Saturn’s Outer Ring
Giant “snowballs” have been discovered plunging through Saturn’s outermost ring, creating glittering trails of ice dubbed mini-jets, researchers have announced.
Image courtesy Caltech/SSI/QMUL/NASA
Sculpting the F Ring
Prometheus is caught here, in the act of pulling a new streamer out of the F ring’s inner edge. Trailing behind (above the moon in the image) are previous dark gores that Prometheus (102 kilometers, or 63 miles across) has created.
See PIA08397 for a thorough description of how the moon creates these features.
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 5 degrees above the ringplane. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Nov. 14, 2007. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 1.7 million kilometers (1.1 million miles) from Prometheus and at a Sun-Prometheus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 67 degrees. Image scale is 10 kilometers (6 miles) per pixel.
