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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Liberator on July 02, 2004, 01:40:37 am

Title: I thought we might brigthen the place up a bit
Post by: Liberator on July 02, 2004, 01:40:37 am: For those who don't know or have been living under a rock for 7 years, Cassini has arrived at Saturn. Several days ago actually, I'm kinda surprised there's no thread about it.

Anyway, here's a link (http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gs2.cgi?path=../multimedia/images/saturn/images/PIA06060.jpg&type=image) to some nice images from the spacecraft.

BTW, the scale of the linked image is 132 KM per pixel.:thepimp:
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Post by: jdjtcagle on July 02, 2004, 01:44:43 am: Forgot where I heard this, but is it true you can hear the wind off of Saturn from where the the probe was?? I don't think it's possible IMO
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Post by: Rictor on July 02, 2004, 01:46:33 am: Nice pictures. But sadly, no wierd human-face like structure to be seen.

..or maybe NASA intentionally took the pics from the other side of the planet, to hide the evidence :wtf: :wtf:

Its so cool that we can actually see what another planet looks like. Its still sort of creeps me out and at the same time fill me with wonder, what amazing feats humans are capable of.
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Post by: Liberator on July 02, 2004, 01:56:21 am: What'll be amazing is when we get a space station that isn't falling apart and wasn't designed with a ****ing fuse vital to the station's continued operation and the lives of the occupantson the OUTSIDE OF THE BEDAMNED THING
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Post by: Ace on July 02, 2004, 02:35:09 am: You know what would be great?

Huygens lands in a shallow methane pool, and a little critter crawls up with little legs and starts humping the probe. Then it stops working ;)
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Post by: beatspete on July 02, 2004, 03:31:22 am: *random stab at those who think the moon landings where faked*

But theres no stars omg! it must be fakez0red.
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Post by: karajorma on July 02, 2004, 05:07:46 am: Quote
Originally posted by Ace
You know what would be great?

Huygens lands in a shallow methane pool, and a little critter crawls up with little legs and starts humping the probe. Then it stops working ;)

Something along those lines might actually happen when we finally get around to sending a probe to Europa. :D
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Post by: aldo_14 on July 02, 2004, 06:34:10 am: Quote
Originally posted by jdjtcagle
Forgot where I heard this, but is it true you can hear the wind off of Saturn from where the the probe was?? I don't think it's possible IMO

There was a recorded sound made when Cassini passed through the rings, IIRC. Kind of eerie, hactually.

EDIT- this - http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/space-audio/cassini/bow-shock/

The Cassini spacecraft crossed the bow shock of Saturn at 09 hr 45 min Universal Time on June 27, 2004, at a radial distance of 49.2 RS (Saturn Radii) from Saturn. The bow shock is a discontinuity that forms in the solar wind when the supersonic solar wind encounters the magnetic field of a planet, very similar to the shock wave that forms upstream of an aircraft moving at a supersonic speed

Oh, and something related; http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=12905
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Post by: Moonsword on July 02, 2004, 06:37:04 am: Interesting...
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Post by: jdjtcagle on July 02, 2004, 12:04:40 pm: WOW!, you have made my day!!
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Post by: ionia23 on July 02, 2004, 02:14:02 pm: I listened to the broadcast of this on NasaTV. This is just so cool. I can wait for Hyugens (sp) to land, and hope that is a success.

Assuming the thing actually lands on land, has anyone said why they don't expect it to last more than 2 hours? I didn't think Titan's atmosphere was quite so hostile (as compared to, say, Venus).
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Post by: Liberator on July 02, 2004, 02:32:28 pm: It's very cold on Titan, actaully colder than it is in space thanks to convection and conduction. The electronics will proably freeze within hours.
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Post by: Tiara on July 02, 2004, 03:18:31 pm: Ah yes, named after the Dutch astronomer. :D Dutch glory in space!
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Post by: aldo_14 on July 02, 2004, 03:24:47 pm: We should launch more probes - hundreds of them, all over the gaff. It'd be a hell of a better investment than yet another bloody war, that's for sure.
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Post by: Rictor on July 02, 2004, 03:27:18 pm: aldo: how about feeding the hungry, or curing diesease? I would have thought that would be an even greater priority. But of course, space exploration is still a better investement than war, thats for sure.
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Post by: aldo_14 on July 02, 2004, 03:52:39 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Rictor
aldo: how about feeding the hungry, or curing diesease? I would have thought that would be an even greater priority. But of course, space exploration is still a better investement than war, thats for sure.

Well, duh.
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Post by: karajorma on July 02, 2004, 04:07:06 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Rictor
aldo: how about feeding the hungry, or curing diesease? I would have thought that would be an even greater priority. But of course, space exploration is still a better investement than war, thats for sure.

Money isn't what is holding us back from feeding the hungry. Same goes for a lot of diseases.

Anyway that's a topic for a different thread.
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Post by: Flipside on July 02, 2004, 04:13:16 pm: Cool, kinda reminds me of 1990 when Voyager 2 reached Saturn :) Theres something magical about close up shots of things incredibly far away :D
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Post by: karajorma on July 02, 2004, 04:27:57 pm: Especially Saturn. With the exception of Earth Saturn is definately the beauty in the system :)
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Post by: Corsair on July 02, 2004, 04:30:47 pm: Quote
Originally posted by beatspete
*random stab at those who think the moon landings where faked*

But theres no stars omg! it must be fakez0red.
And there's TWO LIGHT SOURCES! omgomgomgomg. and the flag is straight out flapping in the breeze! omggggggggggg!!!111oneoneone

*dies of aneurysm*