Aimless In Space
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Rachael - Detroit - WSU
Mad Scientist-in-Training
Clastrophysicist (Classics/Astronomy/Physics)
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Saturn casts a wide shadow across its rings in this Cassini spacecraft view which looks toward the darkened southern hemisphere of the night side of the planet.
Saturn and it’s beautiful rings.
Derived from image sequences from NASA’s Cassini and Voyager missions. [x]
(via galaxyclusters)
Derived from image sequences from NASA’s Cassini and Voyager missions. [x]
(via galaxyclusters)
The Return of the Rings!
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has changed its orbit so it can see Saturn’s rings for the first time in about two years.
(1) The image above shows portions of the thin, ropy F ring and the outer A ring, which is split by the 202-mile (325-km) -wide Encke gap. The shepherd moon Pan can be seen cruising along in the gap along with several thin ringlets.
Image credits: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute.
In the shadows of Saturn’s rings by europeanspaceagency on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
Titan and Saturn, seen when the Cassini spacecraft passed by Titan at a distance of 700, 000 km on 6 May 2012.
The Cassini-–Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations centre is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/J. Major
Saturn
No computer editing has been done to this photo. Saturn is eclipsing the sun from the camera probe’s view. That little spot off to the upper leftside of her brightest rings… Well, that’s us. That’s Earth.
This movie features a simulation showing the changes to a portion of Saturn’s F ring as the shepherding moon Prometheus swings by it. The animation uses data obtained by the imaging cameras aboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.
Sidelong View
Saturn’s enchanting rings display crisply defined edges and strong contrast on their unilluminated side.
Atlas (32 kilometers, or 20 miles across) sits on the far side of the rings above center, between the A and F rings. This view was acquired from about 1 degree above the ringplane.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 21, 2007 at a distance of approximately 2.4 million kilometers (1.5 million miles) from Atlas. Image scale is 14 kilometers (9 miles) per pixel.
courtesy ASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
image id: PIA08999
Dione and Titan (9-17-11) by Lights In The Dark on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
Saturn’s moons Dione and Titan lined up with the planet’s rings, seen here nearly edge-on, from the point of view of the Cassini spacecraft’s camera on September 17, 2011.
This is a composite of three raw images taken with Cassini’s red, green and blue visible-light clear filters.
Dione, 700 miles wide, is dwarfed by the much larger and further moon Titan, which is over 3,200 miles wide and wrapped in a thick opaque atmosphere.
Also in this image is the 12-mile-wide shepherd moon Pan, barely visible within the Encke Gap in the A ring, just below and to the left of Dione.
Cassini was about 1.33 million miles away from Dione when this view was acquired.
Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI. Edited by Jason Major.
www.lightsinthedark.com
Shepherd of Ice
Saturn’s shepherd moon Prometheus hovers between the A and F rings as if suspended on an invisible thread, while bright clouds drift in Saturn’s atmosphere approximately 130,000 kilometers (81,000 miles) beyond. It is noteworthy that such clouds are visible here in the shadows cast by the rings.
Prometheus is 102 kilometers (63 miles) across.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 3, 2005, at a distance of approximately 2.1 million kilometers (1.3 million miles) from Saturn. The image scale is 13 kilometers (8 miles) per pixel. This view was processed to enhance fine details.
courtesy NASA/JPL/Space Science Instituteimage id: PIA07541
Neptune’s Rings
Two of Neptune’s narrow rings are visible as arches above the crescent planet. The inner ring, LeVerrier, is uniform but the outer ring, Adams, contains three visible arcs. The arcs are designated, from bottom to top, Liberte, Egalite and Fraternite. A smaller arc, Courage, leads the other three but falls outside this field of view. Voyager 2 acquired this image as it encountered Neptune in August of 1989.courtesy NASA/JPL
