Hey! You still have a few days to vote for your favorite Saturn image from Cassini. The contest ends on December 30, so get in there and find the pictures that really speak to you… if you can pick just one.
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December 26th, 2007 at 10:31 am
That single picture is my favorite of all times!
As a person I know uses to say: …….Eeeexcellent!…….
December 26th, 2007 at 11:14 am
By far the best Cassini image I’ve seen all year is “Mimas Blues”, but it gets no love. :/
December 26th, 2007 at 11:24 am
Three chosen; also, a New Alliance new member am I.
Will.M.
December 26th, 2007 at 11:25 am
Your entry shot has been my background for months, good choice.
December 26th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Those are some tough choices! Backlit Saturn is still beautiful even when unenhanced, but the Dragon Storm photo is awesome as well, and none of these photos are what you’d call dull. Thanks for the link, Phil!
~David D.G.
December 26th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
I must agree with Andrew, now that I payd with more attention to Mimas Blues, it caught me as a really endearing picture! I should have paid more attention to the rest of the pictures instead of just voting “out of the blue”
December 26th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
I’m going with Dragon Storm, too! The backlit one was on my desktop for months, but the Dragon blows me away. Saturn is so pretty. Why can’t I move there!?
December 26th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
Awesome pictures. I remember Saturn being one of the first objects I looked at out of my first telescope as a kid. (Embarrassingly, it was a Traschco, that eventually fell apart as I was using it.)
December 26th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Is there a link to a high res version of that photo?
December 26th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
I haven’t decided yet. Can I vote for the name? Of all the clever and semi-clever names given to missions or their parts, I like CICLOPS the most :D.
Not sure if I can be so decisive about a picture.
December 27th, 2007 at 12:02 am
Chris, here you are, take your pick;
http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=2230
December 27th, 2007 at 11:31 am
Dragon storm defintely my #1.