Showing posts with label Saturn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saturn. Show all posts

Friday, 11 December 2009

Hard to imagine that there is a man-made object orbiting that oval speck to the right of the Moon

Image of the Moon up close alongside a distinct but distant Saturn and it's Rings which currently has the Cassini spacecraft in orbit around it. http://bit.ly/4oL6X2

Thursday, 10 December 2009

Saturn's Flying Saucer shaped Moon Atlas

Dust deposits originating from Saturn's rings which have built up around Atlas' equatorial region gives it a distinct UFO appearance http://bit.ly/6n5qBm

Cassini spots Saturn hexagon cloud formation

Cassini spots Saturn hexagon cloud formation, not seen since the Voyager missions, only just revealed due to the commencement of northern springtime http://bit.ly/5i3LyF

Friday, 4 December 2009

What would it look like to view Saturn like Rings here on Earth?



Fascinating imagining of what Rings would look like from various latitudes on the Earth's surface during night and day.

Similar to when the Moon is visible, such a large dominant Ring System omnipresent in the night sky (unless you're at the North or South Pole) would create a lot of light pollution due to Sun's illumination, so the trade off would be very poor star-gazing for astronomers. http://bit.ly/6kiHHv

Image Of Saturn System Moon Dione

Cassini discovered that the bright lines on Dione were fresh surface fractures rather than fresh volcanic flows which was suggested by the Voyager science team http://bit.ly/58QTR6