Cassini Beams Back First Images from New Orbit
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Cassini Beams Back First Images from New Orbit
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#2I have to say I've been pretty disappointed with Cassini so far.
Edit: reply was correct, I did in fact mean Juno.
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#3I have to say I've been pretty disappointed with Cassini so far. Edit: reply was correct, I did in fact mean Juno.
How can you not be amazed by those photos?
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#4Every time I see photos of the big gas planets like this, I imagine earth orbiting the gas giant and feel very, very small and get what feels like mild vertigo from the overwhelming scale. This is truly wonderful
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#5> remind you that we’ve lived a bold and daring adventure around the solar system’s most magnificent planet
Other than the one we're standing on, you mean.
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#6For more on the series of close orbits that will eventually take Cassini in between Saturn and its innermost ring, see the project site at https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/2974/cassini-makes-first-ri...
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#7Every time I see photos of the big gas planets like this, I imagine earth orbiting the gas giant and feel very, very small and get what feels like mild vertigo from the overwhelming scale. This is truly wonderful
Personally I find that pictures and the idea of those giant super smooth planets make me feel uneasy and downright scary.
Something along the line; "Way too big, way too smooth to be natural. Almost hostile, evil"
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#8The sides the hexagon are slightly greater than the diameter of Earth.
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#9I have to say I've been pretty disappointed with Cassini so far. Edit: reply was correct, I did in fact mean Juno.
"So far" seems like a really weird way to describe a mission that's been active for the last 12 years.
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#10> remind you that we’ve lived a bold and daring adventure around the solar system’s most magnificent planet Other than the one we're standing on, you mean.
Well said. But, you know, with all its moons and rings, Saturn is way cool-looking than any other planet in our Solar System. That's why they called it that way, I guess.