New Carnival of Space

Miss Frye over at Observations at Missy’s Window is hosting the latest Carnival of Space. I’ve had a somewhat busy week, and forgot to send her one of my own posts, but if you’re here it means you probably read ‘em all anyway. But head on over there and take a gander; as usual there’s lots of good stuff there, and you might find a new blog or two to stick into your feed reader.

And if you like it, show her the love on Digg.

Also, Cassini made it through the water plumes of Enceladus yesterday, and has returned lots of images. I’ll talk about those later.

March 13th, 2008 3:00 PM by Phil Plait in Astronomy, Science | 7 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

7 Responses to “New Carnival of Space”

1. Yoshi_3up Says:
March 13th, 2008 at 5:54 pm

Nice.
2. Michelle Says:
March 13th, 2008 at 6:50 pm

Browsing through the Cassini raw images…
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS38/W00043237.jpg

All I can say is… Damn. That’s one helluva beautiful view. Hard to believe it’s real.
3. Chas Says:
March 13th, 2008 at 7:34 pm

Looking at the raw data photo from NASA — just to the right of the terminator, there are two features that look like semi-circular grooves, with a semi-straight line under them…..

With a little imagination, it looks like …

KILROY WAS HERE!

http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/kilroy.asp
4. Jason Perry Says:
March 13th, 2008 at 8:24 pm

Three-image mosaic released using images taken during yesterday’s Enceladus flyby:

http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=4865
5. Ken Says:
March 13th, 2008 at 8:33 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHY9fFQhX68

Link if html is required

Damn they shrink fast. Im glad I read about the feather and the hammer today, I’d never heard of that. Cool to see.
6. Melusine Says:
March 14th, 2008 at 2:32 pm

Thanks for the reminder. CICLOPS’s high resolution mosaic is very nice too. I tend to rate many of the images as a 10…I suppose they need a scale of: cool, very cool, extremely cool, and out of this world stunning.
7. John Kemeny Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 1:50 pm

How come the Carnival of Space is listed as a discontinued carnival at blogcarnival.com ?

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