Comments on: Big Saturn

By: Stan9FOS

Stan9FOS — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:13:20 +0000

It’s 2009 already! We should be taking vacations there!

By: Tim Bennett

Tim Bennett — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:41:21 +0000

@John Weiss Ah, of course, the rings are also in motion! Thanks, that totally didn’t occur to me.

By: Sili

Sili — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:26:44 +0000

Big Saturn?

Is that like Big Pharma? Sucking all the funds out of the planetary budget at the expense of Uranus and Neptune.

SOMG!! SATURN KILLED PLUTO!!

By: Trebuchet

Trebuchet — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:37:30 +0000

Note that one of the comments quotes someone called “Phil”: Holy Haleakala!

I really love The Big Picture, they have lots of interesting stuff. A surprising amount of which is space/astronomy.

And once again, I’m reminded of what we lost due to the HGA failure on Galileo, at least in terms of pretty pictures.

By: Ca n´Internet

Ca n´Internet — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:28:56 +0000

Sheer beauty.

By: John Weiss

John Weiss — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:10:06 +0000

@Tim Bennett

It’s a question of which direction the material is coming from, seen from Daphnis. Because stuff closer to Saturn moves faster, it overtakes Daphnis and there the waves (which happen after encountering Daphnis) are to one side. Material outside the gap is being overtaken by Daphnis, so the waves appear on the other side.

So glad so many of those pictures turned out well. Wew!

By: Zucchi

Zucchi — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:22:01 +0000

My God (just a figure of speech), that’s fantastic. I especially love the pic of Prometheus distorting the F Ring. And most of these are visible light! Someday humans will make cross that billion miles of space and see this with their own eyes. I kinda wish I’d stuck to my plan, finished college and become a planetary astronomer.

There’s nothing like the first time you see Saturn through a telescope. It’s hard to believe the pictures are real until you see the rings for yourself.

I wish Chesley Bonestell were around to see this.