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Puck
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 Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:04 am Cassini Spacecraft Captures Stunning New View of Saturn |
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| Quote: | The Cassini spacecraft has captured a fresh view of Saturn from high above the planet's gorgeous rings and also provided a stunning video of its travels through the ring plane.
"Finally, here are the views that we've waited years for," said Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team leader at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. "Sailing high above Saturn and seeing the rings spread out beneath us like a giant, copper medallion is like exploring an alien world we've never seen before. It just doesn't look like the same place. It's so utterly breath-taking, it almost gives you vertigo." |
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070301_saturn_images.html
Saturn's shadow stretches completely across the rings in this view, taken on Jan. 19, 2007 and released March 1. It's a natural-color view taken from about 764,000 miles (1.2 million kilometer) away. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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Mulder
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| Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:07 pm |
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That sure is nice footage 
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