Spectacular New Image of Saturn From the Cassini Spacecraft

The ringed planet from high above
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Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/G. Ugarkovic

The latest photos from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn are truly spectacular. This composite true-color image was created by an amateur image processor, Gordan Ugarkovic.

Click the image for a larger version, or go to the NASA page for a giant-sized 4000 x 3200 pixel image, suitable for a desktop background even if you have a ridiculously huge monitor: High Above Saturn | NASA.

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19 comments
1 ObserverArt  Sat, Oct 19, 2013 11:21:44am

Wow! That is a perfect image in so many ways.

2 Eclectic Cyborg  Sat, Oct 19, 2013 11:22:05am

Looks like a cantaloupe In a decorative bowl.

3 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Oct 19, 2013 11:24:30am

Wow, the pole looks six sided and blue…what would make it so different in color?

Very nice image—quite beautiful AAMOF.

4 Charles Johnson  Sat, Oct 19, 2013 11:25:57am

re: #3 Justanotherhuman

Wow, the pole looks six sided and blue…what would make it so different in color?

Very nice image—quite beautiful AAMOF.

The north pole of Saturn actually is six-sided: Image of the Day: Saturn’s North Polar Hexagon, Close Up.

5 ObserverArt  Sat, Oct 19, 2013 11:30:14am

Thanks for the link to the large image Charles. Saved.

A fine study in subtle color especially in the rings.

6 makeitstop  Sat, Oct 19, 2013 11:31:43am

Mah new wallpaper! Thanks, Charles!

7 wrenchwench  Sat, Oct 19, 2013 11:34:28am

Stunning.

8 Teukka  Sat, Oct 19, 2013 11:35:11am

Wow.

Just Wow.

9 b.d.  Sat, Oct 19, 2013 11:41:09am

How awesome is that? I sure hope that the Utah Boy Scouts never get a spaceship.

10 wrenchwench  Sat, Oct 19, 2013 11:52:24am
11 Charles Johnson  Sat, Oct 19, 2013 11:54:33am
12 austin_blue  Sat, Oct 19, 2013 11:55:53am

Well, this is fun!

nytimes.com

And so is this!

nytimes.com

13 Varek Raith  Sat, Oct 19, 2013 11:58:35am

Carter, I can see my house!

14 wrenchwench  Sat, Oct 19, 2013 12:21:20pm
15 Lidane  Sat, Oct 19, 2013 12:52:25pm

*sigh*

Texas gun owners stage rally at the Alamo

I really wish people would read about the Alamo before using it as a prop in their stupidity. Also, the chances of Texas ever adopting hardcore gun control legislation are less than nil, so this is nothing but bullshit grandstanding. We’re a deep red state. WTF more do these assholes want?

16 Sol Berdinowitz  Sat, Oct 19, 2013 12:57:36pm

re: #15 Lidane

*sigh*

Texas gun owners stage rally at the Alamo

I really wish people would read about the Alamo before using it as a prop in their stupidity. Also, the chances of Texas ever adopting hardcore gun control legislation are less than nil, so this is nothing but bullshit grandstanding. We’re a deep red state. WTF more do these assholes want?

They want a chance to play with their dick substitutes in public.

17 122 Year Old Obama  Sat, Oct 19, 2013 1:03:04pm

re: #15 Lidane

*sigh*

Texas gun owners stage rally at the Alamo

I really wish people would read about the Alamo before using it as a prop in their stupidity. Also, the chances of Texas ever adopting hardcore gun control legislation are less than nil, so this is nothing but bullshit grandstanding. We’re a deep red state. WTF more do these assholes want?

To get away with killing people they disagree with?
//

18 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Oct 19, 2013 1:05:35pm

re: #15 Lidane

*sigh*

Texas gun owners stage rally at the Alamo

I really wish people would read about the Alamo before using it as a prop in their stupidity. Also, the chances of Texas ever adopting hardcore gun control legislation are less than nil, so this is nothing but bullshit grandstanding. We’re a deep red state. WTF more do these assholes want?

Molon bullshit.

19 ObserverArt  Sat, Oct 19, 2013 1:06:29pm

re: #17 122 Year Old Obama

To get away with killing people they disagree with?
//

Do they even have to disagree? It could be so many reasons: race/color, religion, sexual orientation, road rage, the little woman needs to shut up, just plain don’t like the way you look…


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