handofdave
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Wow! Saturn from the dark side
Oct 16, 2006, 14:19
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Absolutely incredible image- I think it's gonna be my new desktop for a while.....
http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/astropix.html
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Moon Cat
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Re: Wow! Saturn from the dark side
Oct 16, 2006, 14:46
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Cool! Does that look like something they'd have on a screen on one of the work stations on the Enterprise or what?!
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dee
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Re: Wow! Saturn from the dark side
Oct 16, 2006, 14:52
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That looks like it was done on a computer or summink to me!!
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handofdave
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Re: Wow! Saturn from the dark side
Oct 16, 2006, 15:01
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dee wrote: That looks like it was done on a computer or summink to me!!
The text does say that it's a false color image, so some picture processing was done on it.
But one thing that has always struck me is that the big gas giant planets, tho they absolutely dwarf our earth, somehow look so bereft of any surface detail that truly shows their actual size- Jupiter has all its storms and cloud bands, but Saturn, Uranus and Neptune might as well be closeup photos of marbles for all you can tell by looking at them.
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dee
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Re: Wow! Saturn from the dark side
Oct 16, 2006, 15:28
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Yeah, i noticed that it was enhanced,but you can click on the image before the colour was added.....doesnt look real to me ...but then again , I've never been to Saturn, so I dont know!!!
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sttomas
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Re: Wow! Saturn from the dark side
Oct 16, 2006, 15:35
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Wow!!
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FourWinds
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Re: Wow! Saturn from the dark side
Oct 16, 2006, 17:18
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I found yesterday's image rather amazing: http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/ap061015.html
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Vybik Jon
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Re: Wow! Saturn from the dark side
Oct 16, 2006, 17:26
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I expected to see Enterprise or Voyager coming out of that.
Fantastic!
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red peony
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Re: Wow! Saturn from the dark side
Oct 17, 2006, 01:39
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And I love the fact that the little tiny dot off to the left near the rings is Earth...
Sagan wrote this about that photo:
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
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supercat
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Re: Wow! Saturn from the dark side
Oct 17, 2006, 07:35
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I loved Carl Sagan. xx
Two fantastic links guys, thank you. x
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