I was just thinking it was way past time to check in with cassini - thanks again satt!
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Fri 18 Mar, 2005 10:39 am
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The JPL site is so cool. Thanks for the link and the updates.
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littlek
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Fri 18 Mar, 2005 07:01 pm
I just learned about a new andle on Mars - the european orbital which has been scanning the surface has found some cool stuff - - - I'll go try to find something more about this on google.
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littlek
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Fri 18 Mar, 2005 07:05 pm
From the european Mars Express:
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Mars isn't as sleepy as scientists suspected. An international research team, which includes Brown University planetary geologist James Head, has found evidence of recent glacial movement and volcanic eruptions in 3-D images from the Mars Express mission. The team's latest work, laid out in three Nature papers, also includes evidence of a frozen sea close to the equator. These and other Mars Express findings are stoking debate about the possibility of life on the Red Planet.
Shifting glaciers and exploding volcanoes aren't confined to Mars' distant past, according two new reports in the journal Nature.
"[T]he Sun is behind the camera but on the other side of the ring plane."
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littlek
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Wed 22 Jun, 2005 07:18 pm
Wow!
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Setanta
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Wed 22 Jun, 2005 09:34 pm
I've been saving these photos since the beginning of the thread, they're great.
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satt fs
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Tue 5 Jul, 2005 03:01 am
Can this be of real color?
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satt fs
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Tue 5 Jul, 2005 03:45 pm
a blend of both visual and X-ray observations
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littlek
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Tue 5 Jul, 2005 05:25 pm
How could it be of real color? Those are both super cool. What are the xray blobs in the second one?
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satt fs
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Tue 5 Jul, 2005 05:34 pm
littlek wrote:
What are the xray blobs in the second one?
"Astronomers believe that fluorescence caused when solar X-rays smack into the oxygen molecules locked with in Saturn's icy ring water."
- quoted from this page.
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littlek
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Tue 5 Jul, 2005 05:43 pm
Hnh.
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satt fs
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Fri 23 Sep, 2005 02:57 pm
a new angle..
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littlek
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Fri 23 Sep, 2005 09:41 pm
Is that the line of orbit? Could it be? With all those hard angles?
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satt fs
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Fri 23 Sep, 2005 10:30 pm
Sorry, I had misunderstood the "solar system simulator."
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littlek
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Sun 25 Sep, 2005 09:31 pm
Still confused.
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rosborne979
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Mon 26 Sep, 2005 09:44 am
littlek wrote:
Still confused.
Hi K,
I'm not certain, but I think the "hard angles" may be caused by the spacecraft passing close to various moons. I'm sure the moons can be used to alter the trajectory of the craft into a stable orbit.
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littlek
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Mon 26 Sep, 2005 05:39 pm
Riiiight, the gravity wells sling-shot them - I didn't think of that. Thanks Rosborne!
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satt fs
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Sun 2 Oct, 2005 11:44 pm
Hyperion.
(I am afraid that this may cause a nightmare.)