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Wilber_Stool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 12:36 AM
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Quick Pic: Dione and Saturn
Edited on Sat Dec-25-04 12:55 AM by Wilber_Stool


Cassini captured Dione against the globe of Saturn as it approached the icy moon for its close rendezvous on December 14, 2004. This natural color view shows the moon to have strong variations in brightness across its surface, but a remarkable lack of color, compared to the warm hues of Saturn's atmosphere. Several oval-shaped storms are present in the planet's atmosphere, along with ripples and waves in the cloud bands.

Images taken with red, green and blue filters were used to create this natural color view. The images were obtained with the wide angle camera from a distance of approximately 603,000 kilometers (375,000 miles) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle is 34 degrees. The image scale is about 32 kilometers (20 miles) per pixel.

Lots of good stuff here this week.

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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 12:37 AM
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1. WOW!
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Cush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 12:40 AM
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2. that's no moon, it's a space station
Edited on Sat Dec-25-04 12:40 AM by Cush
cool pic, but it does look like the Death Star
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 12:45 AM
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3. Very cool!
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 01:26 AM
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4. Spectacular!
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Tangledog Donating Member (312 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 11:26 PM
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5. Thanks for my latest desktop wallpaper!! (n/t)
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eyepaddle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 05:42 PM
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6. Fantastic!
It just killed me having to wait all those years for Cassini to make it to Saturn--I can hardly wait to see what Huygens uncovers :)
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