Comments on: Dione’s atlas shrugged

By: The Dione Atlas | geo2web.com

The Dione Atlas | geo2web.com — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:12:45 +0000

[...] moon Dione. The atlas is available as a set of 15 PDF files at a scale of 1:1,000,000. Via Bad Astronomy and Universe Today. This is the third atlas of a Saturnian moon that has been released by the [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 22 May 2008 11:39:25 +0000

You’re forgetting the chance to witness the all day race… when superatheletes circumnavigate the moon doing ~8 minute km to keep the sun at the horizon.

By: wintremute

wintremute — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:09:24 +0000

BA can remember it for you wholesale.

By: Dione « Pasa la vida

Dione « Pasa la vida — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:13:55 +0000

[...] VÃa Bad Astronomy Blog [...]

By: LafinJack

LafinJack — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:41:50 +0000

It’s odd, when I first saw the map above I thought it was some kind of wind chart or other odd vector map of Earth. My pareodilia lobe sees North America in the upper left, a less-clear South America below it, the yawning Atlantic in the middle of the image, a sort-of Africa/Europe/Asia/Philippines blob east of that, with Australia MIA. The 2D stretching of the poles made me think of the Arctic and Antarctic.

By: DrFlimmer

DrFlimmer — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:42:56 +0000

But I elected President Scroob… oh… Spaceball City was somewhere else!

By: Rahne

Rahne — Wed, 21 May 2008 04:20:14 +0000

This is of course after Ron Popeil invented the technology to keep heads alive in jars, and now they’re running for president.

Well, at least it isn’t Nixon!