Saturn and Titan from Cassini
apod.nasa.gov — Spectacular vistas of Saturn and its moon continue to be recorded by the Cassini spacecraft.
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- awuwish, on 03/24/2008, -8/+6I know APOD is cliched by now, but this one's story is pretty interesting.
- awuwish, on 03/24/2008, -19/+1blah...bury duplicate
- Aeroslin, on 03/24/2008, -2/+40How could this be cliche? Think for just one second about how this picture was taken. While sitting in your chair at your computer you are looking out through the eyes of a spacecraft that is orbiting a planet that is about 740 million miles away from the earth. That could never be cliche.
The average person travels only 3.6 million miles in their entire lifetime. That should help the perspective a little bit, I think.- Hobbes24, on 03/24/2008, -13/+5not knowing how to reply is ***** lame.
- awuwish, on 03/24/2008, -5/+3By cliched I meant APOD being posted everyday. Don't get me wrong, I love seeing these pictures everyday. It's becoming the next XKCD however.
- fluxion, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1thing about xkcd and apod is that if you've seen 1, you havent seen them all. (sorry, this sounds more cheesy and obvious than i planned)
- catachip, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1I could show you a million amazing pictures that NASA and astronomers have taken over the years. I also know the address of the NASA APOD website. This picture is no more or less special than the million other amazing pics they take; hence, it is clichéd.
- thehidden, on 03/24/2008, -6/+2awesome
- khail250, on 03/24/2008, -0/+10"noises" saturn or jupiter, always calming at work :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3fqE01YYWs
- adustum, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2really cool, thanks!
- Redseele, on 03/24/2008, -1/+2That is amazing!!! THANKS FOR THE LINK!
- willk281, on 03/24/2008, -1/+7What website? APOD? Dugg!
- lukelucas, on 03/24/2008, -1/+2while the picture today is extraordinary (and overwhelming when you try to wrap your head around the massiveness of it all), i'm really stoked about what tomorrow's picture is: Galaxy War!
(look towards the bottom) - InnerBlueAbyss, on 03/24/2008, -0/+8Space FTW!
- Dylson, on 03/24/2008, -0/+3Saturn is huge, wow.
- revyn, on 03/24/2008, -2/+8FTA: "Recent radar images of Titan from Cassini indicate flat regions that are likely lakes of liquid methane, indicating a complex weather system where it likely rains chemicals similar to gasoline."
In related news, the Bush Administration pulls out of Iraq to begin investigating interstellar travel. - annflower, on 03/24/2008, -7/+3looks like photoshop:)
- ericdano, on 03/24/2008, -1/+1Probably cause they do not use your standard camera to take these pictures. It's more of a composite.......
- diggrific, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1NASA colorizes many of their photos, or simply "tweaks" the existing color. They do this to make it "pretty" for the public (it's good P.R.). They really should only release the raw images to the media for accuracy.
- catachip, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1Most of the pictures would be in black and white, and thus, very boring. All of the images that have false color are usually labeled as such.
- Jektal, on 03/24/2008, -3/+1Is Titan oval-ish?
- Sikarian, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2It is if you don't click the picture to view it full size
- fearziz, on 03/24/2008, -8/+1Looks Fake to me. Surely a multi million dollar satellite designed to take pictures of a planet hundreds of times larger than ours can do better then this. I smell bull crap...
- Duositex, on 03/24/2008, -1/+3Please show us your collection of photographs from your trip to Saturn. I bet they're stunning.
- ohcoaster, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1yah it's ***** shopped
- linkerjpatrick, on 03/24/2008, -1/+2The Death Star will be in range in 3 minutes....
- walterwarr, on 03/24/2008, -2/+2WOW! So Amazing!
- Caeili, on 03/24/2008, -3/+2To think that with all the stars in the galaxy & all the galaxies in the universise (Old picture, I know.. http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/galaxy_collect ... or http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/galaxy_collect ... )
That we are the only ones that evolved life.....seems kinda silly to think there is life only here.
Each of those spots is a galaxy of a hundred billion stars with hundreds of billions of planets....
I miss Carl Sagan.- Aeroslin, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2I miss him as well. I think that is the duty of those that have in some way been touched by his words, to at least try to relay the same passion for the science of the universe to others, just as he did for us.
- ZombieKiss, on 03/24/2008, -5/+3And yet there will still be those who refuse to acknowledge these pictures on the basis that it wasn't written in the bible. They'll write it off as 'art'.
Blows my mind.- Caeili, on 03/24/2008, -3/+2I come from a family of Christians. Read my comment above. There is not a single memeber of my family that would doubt those pictures.
It blows my mind that YOU are the one with a closed mind.
OH....And you blow my "closed mind" for being a simple *****.- ZombieKiss, on 03/24/2008, -2/+2I wasn't referring to you, but as most people of the same... background such as yourself you lash out in defense when you clearly have stated that what I said doesn't apply to you. You may seem different on the surface but you just showed me that deep down you're all the same.
http://friendlyatheist.com/2008/03/23/how-to-ruin- ...- diggrific, on 03/24/2008, -0/+3Why be the first one to bring religion into this thread? No one else did!
- ZombieKiss, on 03/24/2008, -2/+2I wasn't referring to you, but as most people of the same... background such as yourself you lash out in defense when you clearly have stated that what I said doesn't apply to you. You may seem different on the surface but you just showed me that deep down you're all the same.
- chardar4, on 03/24/2008, -1/+2When have you ever spoken to a christian and had them say they don't believe in anything that wasn't spelled out in the Bible. The Bible says that God created the Earth. I suppose you then expect it to state every single thing on the Earth, or you think it isn't accurate. It dosen't list me, yet here I am. Seems to me like you just want the Bible to be wrong. Also think its funny that when someone like you takes a cheap shot at something you obviously are biased against, and someone corrects you, it suddenly "isn't about them". As if your grossly general statment was to somehow be constrewed about all christians EXCEPT the person who replied. I must have missed that.
- musicbear, on 03/24/2008, -2/+2Ah, another kind person who hasn't been to the south of America where it is often explicitly taught that if its not in the bible then it didn't happen in our glorious pre history of 3000 years ago.
- catachip, on 03/24/2008, -1/+3Umm... I'm an atheist and I pretty sure there are ZERO christians who would argue against the existence of planets. Are you nuts?! God made the Earth and the Heavens. There you go, planets, galaxies and solar systems explained (for them). Come on now, you're just being ridiculous.
- headband, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1there has to be somebody, my crazy room mate tried to tell me last year that he can prove christianity because there are still dinosuars alive in the jungles of africa and so the earth couldn't have existed more than 10,000 years ago
- Caeili, on 03/24/2008, -3/+2I come from a family of Christians. Read my comment above. There is not a single memeber of my family that would doubt those pictures.
- ELLIS1128, on 03/24/2008, -2/+4I'm so fed up with pics of colored circles like these on digg.
- DarkTrancer, on 03/24/2008, -0/+3Anyone know of a "widget" or similar where i can get the pictures and text on my desktop,however often it`s updated?
- catachip, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1It's called NASA "Astronomy Picture of the Day", so, I'd imagine that they update it every day or so. Just a guess, though.
- awuwish, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1I just use an RSS reader. Really simple and it manages everything you want.
Feed for APOD: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod.rss
- londubh, on 03/24/2008, -1/+1It looks like Saturn let a pootie.
- trezegol, on 03/24/2008, -0/+8I know its kinda OT but Im proud of this pic :)
http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/2136/saturnda4. ...
Taken from my scope :>- Aeroslin, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o98/Aeroslin/Im ...
It's blurry but I took it myself.- meteors, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1Not bad at all.
- Aeroslin, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o98/Aeroslin/Im ...
- taketheleap, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2"...rains liquids similar to gasoline."
Energy crisis = solved.
Invade Saturn.- angryredplanet, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1You meant to say, Liberate Titan.
- larenels, on 03/24/2008, -0/+0I've spent the last three years on another galaxy. I love the pictures we get from space.
- phenolholic, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2funny thing. i went to a titan seminar today. i'm in a research group conducting atmospheric chemistry research. parallel universe.
- Tetraca, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2Great. We've really come a long way from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:P11F81.jpg ...
- computerusr, on 03/25/2008, -0/+0Photoshopped.
- WriteDoc, on 03/27/2008, -0/+0Only God could create such splendor and order as seen in space.
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