We love Saturn
Here are some great pictures released by N.A.S.A of Saturn and it’s Moons. These pictures were taken by the Cassini Spacecraft which has been flying around Saturn for over 4 years already. Here is the question, if you had the opportunity to go to space, would you?
Do you see the little white dot in the ring. That one of Saturn’s many moon, this one 28Km/17Miles wide.
Close picture of the Lapetus moon which is the 3rd largest Sarturn moon.
The shadow of Tethys drifts across the face of Saturn. Nearby, shadows of the planet’s rings form a darkened band above the equator.
Cassini tracks the shepherd moon Prometheus as it orbits Saturn. Prometheus is just about to pass behind the planet, and a faint streamer of ring material lies below and to the right of Prometheus (86 km/53 mi wide)
Dark irregular patterns dot the bright outer B ring just left of the large Huygens Gap in the center of this image from Cassini. Cassini scientists speculate that these features are likely the result of transient gravitational clumping. The outer edge of the B ring is anchored and sculpted by a powerful gravitational resonance with the moon, Mimas (396 km/246 mi wide)
Small, battered Epimetheus before Saturn’s A and F rings, and and smog-enshrouded Titan (5,150 km/3,200 mi wide) beyond
Cassini peers through the fine, smoke-sized ice particles of Saturn’s F ring toward the cratered face of Mimas (396 km/246 mi wide)
Gray Mimas appears to hover above the colorful rings. The large crater seen on the right side of the moon is named for William Herschel, who discovered Mimas in 1789
Check out the rest of the pictures here.
22 comments
i would say yes in no time if someone would give me the opportunity to go to space. i think i will come back another person to earth, inspired by the figures and patterns in space.
If I had the opportunity, hell yeah. I would be all over it!
hell yeah i would go, i’d risk the space sickness for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
yes indeed! space is ridiculously interesting and amazing.
Hell no! I have a hard enough time getting on an airplane.
ABSOLUTELY! One of the items on my bucket list is to do that NASA thing where you can go into space on one of their ships…
Nice! Go to space? I don’t know…
sure i would go to space. i’m already on my third time in iraq, so that’s an easy question..if i can bring someone wit me, that’ll be even better =D
WOW!!!…this is like really crazy 2 me rt now because ive never seen saturn like this b4
n it just seems like really romantic…*crazy rt*
yes…i would go…but not alone…id go with my true luv…XOXO
Whoa crazy pics, i love learning about space its amazing. I would be to scared to go
i would go if i could go with you
idk i probably would but i would be kind of scared tho.. but i probably would go.. but wow thats some great pics of saturn in its moons.. space is beautiful..
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soo I just got done taking an astronomy course and my professor showed us these pictures also..I’m guessing you guys are registered to the NASA thing that sends you like recent info and stuff and the picture of the day or something..kool beans
THIS IS SO COOL.
yeah!!!!!
great pics!
Probably not;
I hate extreme darkness.
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where does space stop ?
is there something after space ?
its so creepy i think
idd be to scared to goo ._.
thats my favourite planet!!
lol, its the cutest one!
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that looks STUPIDLY OBVIOUS like computer modelling… i don’t believe it… or our photography or observation of the planets would not look like that… and nah, i personally wouldn’t go “into” outer space… i don’t wanna mess with nature – and do you know how hard it fucks with your health to go through the layers of our atmosphere on Earth??? let’s not try and challenge a Supreme and Ultimate Reality.
fuck that. look at what people learnt and observed of the solar system without ever going there, kepler for example. we’re getting ahead of ourselves as human beings who belong on Earth and it’s fuct up…
has anyone ever left our solar system? no. sure, machines have, but we’re cellular. let’s not fuck with nature and what is beyond our scope, let’s just try getting planet Earth and it’s inhabitants OK before we jump the gun. we are not ****, we are not THE SUBLIME and we have no business being there.
YES… i was never interested in Astro until.. i took Astro 101 last semester and i loved it.. plus my teach was pretty cool… so yeah i fell in love with Astro