"Cassini spacecraft snaps new views of Saturn "

[FourScore]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070301/sc_nm/space_cassini_dc

"LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA's Cassini spacecraft has snapped never-before-seen images of Saturn showing the planet from perspectives above and below its ring system, the national space agency said on Thursday.

The images were taken in recent weeks by the probe, which blasted off on a mission to study the planet and its bands a decade ago.

Over the last two months, the spacecraft has climbed to higher and higher inclinations, providing its cameras with glimpses of the planet and rings that have excited scientists..."

[Ian David]

1. Is that a giant, black Monolith? n/t

[Klimmer]

4. Amazing and exciting stuff. This is what we all should be talking about . . .

rather than BCF and the Neo-cons and how they have screwed-up the world in all ways for some unknown but long amount of time into the foreseeable future.

By-the-way, I'm hearing this music in my head when I look at that image . . .

Duh-Duh . . . Da-Da . . . Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom . . . Duh-Duh . . . DA-DA . . .

"HAL, open the pod-bay doors HAL. HAL! OPEN THE POD-BAY DOORS!"

Although the black monolith led them to Jupiter didn't it? Maybe, it really is on Saturn below all the gas clouds?(lol)

Classic movie. Way, way ahead of its time.

[zbdent]

6. and if you read the original novel ...

the center of Jupiter was a giant diamond, far larger than the Earth ...

I remember my science teacher in grade school saying something to the effect that Jupiter might have been a second sun, it just didn't have the needed spark ...

I also remember thinking I'd like to go on a manned mission to Jupiter with a Bic lighter ...

[FourScore]

9. Yeah,

and if you look close enugh you'll see the apes too. (Theme song rises):smoke:

[KharmaTrain]

2. This Mission Has Been Awesome...

Last week, Discovery Science Channel re-ran the landing of the Hueygens probe onto the surface of Triton along with an excellent recap of the entire Cassini mission.

From one who grew up in the 60s...all but riveted to the Mercury, Gemini & Apollo launches and programs, I am constatly fascinated and amazed at all we've seen and begun to learn about our universe.

:kick:

[Eurobabe]

3. Breathtaking...thanks for posting

those are beautiful!

[Wilber_Stool]

5. More pics

here: http://ciclops.org/index.php?flash=1

[FourScore]

10. Wow! Great link! Thank you so much!

[leftyladyfrommo]

7. I love these pictures. And I love the little rovers on Mars. And Hubble

pictures.

[Uncle Joe]

8. That's a beautiful photo

Thanks for the thread whereismyparty.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

11. God, what an eyesore.

Thank god there's only nine of those things.