Thursday, February 9th, 2012
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
Carl Sagan
The footage in this little film, by Chriss Abbas, was captured by the hardworking men and women at NASA and The European Space Agency with the Cassini Imaging Science System.
Not all images taken by Cassini are sharp as in photo #1 (check #2 or #3) and it [...]
This photo was taken on February 08, 2012 and received on Earth February 08, 2012. The camera was pointing toward TITAN at approximately 3,980,306 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CB2 and CL2 filters. Credit
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
NASA’s Cassini mission has been orbiting Saturn for five Earth years as of June 30, 2009. That’s about one sixth of a Saturnian year, enough time for the spacecraft to have observed seasonal changes in the planet, its moons and sunlight’s angle on the dramatic rings.
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the [...]
This mosaic combines 30 images—10 each of red, green and blue light—taken over the course of approximately two hours as Cassini panned its wide-angle camera across the entire planet and ring system on July 23, 2008, from a southerly elevation of 6 degrees.
Six moons complete this constructed panorama: Titan (5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles, across), Janus (179 kilometers, or 111 miles, across), Mimas (396 kilometers, or 246 miles, across), Pandora (81 kilometers, or 50 miles, across), Epimetheus (113 kilometers, or 70 miles, across) and Enceladus (504 kilometers, or 313 miles, across).
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured these images at a distance of approximately 1.1 million kilometers (690,000 miles) from Saturn and at a sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 20 degrees. Image scale is 70 kilometers (43.6 miles) per pixel. Credit
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