... am a HUGE fan of this program so if you have or know some kids or are a kid yourself, please participate. If you are a teacher, oh please consider this for a class project!!! Oh sure you have to do a little work but it's a great project and I'm sure you will
Posted by Tom's Astronomy Blog
Check. This. Out. What an amazing shot from Cassini!Holy Haleakala! How gorgeous is that?This picture really threw me for a minute. I couldn't figure it out! Obviously, you're seeing the night side of Saturn; the planet itself is an almost entirely dark disk. The bright curve you see at the edge is sunlight scattered by
Posted by Bad Astronomy
Saturn's moons as you've never seen them before! By day, Dr. Paul Schenk works at the Lunar and Planetary Institute mapping the topography and geology of the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, as well as the icy bodies of the outer solar system. But because "its just plain cool," he has created some flyover videos
Posted by Universe Today
Just days ago (Friday the 13th), the Cassini spacecraft did a flyby of the Saturn moon Enceladus and paid particular attention the tiger stripes that are apparent in the south polar regions. We know the tiger stripes to be giant fissures spewing jets of water vapor and organic particles hundreds of kilometers (and miles) into
Posted by Tom's Astronomy Blog
Oh. My. Another lovely, stunning Cassini image: A thin crescent Enceladus rising over the sunlit cloud tops of Saturn:What a sight! As the spacecraft rounded into the dark side of Saturn, it turned back toward the planet (and the far more distant Sun). The top of Saturn's atmosphere is still lit as seen from Cassini's
Posted by Bad Astronomy
new pics from Saturn sys. –Ben Cassini Images from this Weekend's Enceladus, Tethys and Dione Flybys! August 14, 2010 Dear Friends and Colleagues, Just down on the ground today … images from Cassini's close flybys of Tethys, Dione and Enceladus this weekend. Go to … http://www. ciclops. org/view_event/140/Enceladus_Tethys_and_Dione_Rev_136_Raw_Preview … and see some gorgeous raw images of these
Posted by Slacker Astronomy
Oh, wow! This is one of the best images yet from the Cassini spacecraft of the "tiger stripes" in the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Over the weekend, Cassini flew by Enceladus, and has sent back some incredible new images, such as the one above. The tiger stripes are actually giant fissures that
Posted by Universe Today
This afternoon I set myself a challenge – take a paper published on the astronomy arXiv today and blog about it by the end of the day. Luckily for me an intriguing non-detection in our own Solar System popped up. Back in 2008 it was widely reported that the Cassini spacecraft had detected a ring
Posted by we are all in the gutter
There are times I wish I had more than 610 pixels of width to this blog, because then I could display this eerie and wonderful picture in its full glory:[Click to embiggen]The full size image isn't much bigger, but gives you a better idea of the loneliness and blackness of space. Taken by Cassini, it
Posted by Bad Astronomy
The Cassini probe is orbiting Saturn, taking devastatingly beautiful pictures all the time. But sometimes one comes along, and while at first glance it looks like just another routine shot, when you look more closely you realizing you're gazing into awesomeness. This picture [click to enjovianate] looks like just another shot of the edge of
Posted by Bad Astronomy
When I was a kid, Saturn had one big, flat ring system divided up into maybe three or four broad sections separated by gaps, and that was it. Turns out, we were wrong. Saturn has thousands of rings made up of billions upon billions of tiny ice particles. There aren't just a handful of gaps, there
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