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Saturn as seen by Cassini

 
 
littlek
 
Reply Tue 20 Oct, 2009 06:13 pm
I swear I started one of these threads (or that someone else did), but I can't find it.

Some new images coming back from the Cassini mission
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/saturn_at_equinox.html

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/saturn_10_19/s04_PIA11477.jpg

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/saturn_10_19/s09_PIA11571.jpg

I'm still trying to conceptualize this one
http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/saturn_10_19/s23_N00143731.jpg
 
panzade
 
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Reply Tue 20 Oct, 2009 06:26 pm
I don't get the first one
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littlek
 
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Reply Tue 20 Oct, 2009 06:32 pm
The moon is passing inside the arc of a ring. As it glides by, it pulls particles from the ring towards it.
panzade
 
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Reply Tue 20 Oct, 2009 06:35 pm
@littlek,
duh...thanks
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tsarstepan
 
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Reply Tue 20 Oct, 2009 07:57 pm
@littlek,
How does the moon in the first picture compare to the size of our moon? I can't imagine its particularly large... about the size of a comet or asteroid?
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littlek
 
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Reply Tue 20 Oct, 2009 08:31 pm
That moon is Prometheus, a "potato-shaped" moon. It is about 145 by 85 by 62 km in size. The diameter of the Moon is 3,474 km.

Prometheus is really small.
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Tue 20 Oct, 2009 08:40 pm
@littlek,
Mmmmm... French fried moon.
http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Science/Images/drooling-homer-simpson.jpg
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Region Philbis
 
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Reply Wed 21 Oct, 2009 05:10 am
@littlek,
Quote:
I swear I started one of these threads (or that someone else did), but I can't find it.
this one?
http://able2know.org/topic/127794-1
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djjd62
 
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Reply Wed 21 Oct, 2009 05:16 am
good stuff
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Wed 21 Oct, 2009 07:26 am
Here's a video of the ripples.

http://gizmodo.com/5386224/spectacular-video-of-saturn-moons-disturbing-its-rings?autoplay=true
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Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 21 Oct, 2009 08:58 am
@littlek,
I think what you may be referring to, Miss Kay, is that pictures from Cassini have been posted in threads that are not specifically about Saturn.

Thanks for this thread--i love this stuff.
littlek
 
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Reply Wed 21 Oct, 2009 04:48 pm
I love that video of ripples. The second moon (outside the arc) smooths the damage done by the first (inside the arc).

Region - how could I have searched for 30 minutes and not found it? Did you just add the tags?
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Lightwizard
 
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Reply Wed 21 Oct, 2009 05:00 pm
@littlek,
I think you posted it on a thread and then I, in turn, posted it on the ID thread. So it needs to have it's own discussion! There's an astronomy test posted on Facebook I'll link to later on. It's kinda fun but even though it's 20 questions, it's more like 25 or 26 as the fourth choice is whether the first two or three apply!
littlek
 
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Reply Wed 21 Oct, 2009 06:30 pm
@Lightwizard,
I took that test and didn't do all that well.
Lightwizard
 
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Reply Wed 21 Oct, 2009 07:53 pm
@littlek,
I found it and then had to go on errands. Don't feel badly -- I only got 14, but I take tests like that on a lark and do them quickly, not giving enough time to think it out or pull something out of my memory. Most of it are discoveries based on the Hubble.

I know who my Facebook A2K screen names are and then they slip by me but in my book, you're a star!
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Lightwizard
 
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Reply Wed 21 Oct, 2009 07:56 pm
@Setanta,
I also love this stuff -- anxiously awaiting all the new Hubble photos with the new camera. The NOVA special on the repair was outstanding. I was as close to going into astronomy as I was going into architecture in the last year of college and, unfortunately, I got a job with a friend of the family's job as their controller, so it never came to pass. I have to admit it was salary greed.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 22 Oct, 2009 06:23 am
@littlek,
Wow!!!!!
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Lightwizard
 
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Reply Thu 22 Oct, 2009 07:14 am
@littlek,
Here's the test:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/09/11/science/20090911_tierneylab_quiz.html
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littlek
 
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Reply Fri 21 May, 2010 07:00 pm
More photos of Saturn (30 of them)....

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/checking_in_on_saturn.html

This could be an artist's scifi book cover.
http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/cassini_05_21/s15_00154034.jpg
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Fri 21 May, 2010 07:25 pm
Saturn looks as though it were a product of some science fiction writer's mind.
 

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