11 Years of Cassini Saturn Photos [video]

Posted by tmkbry on Sunday June 26, 2016 @10:40PM
from the youtube.com dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c8eSr7x7AA

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Re:11 Years of Cassini Saturn Photos [video] by vatys on Monday June 27, 2016 @12:47AM (#11984248)

This is incredible, and it appeals to me on so many levels.

The snippets that are smooth time-lapse clips are like a brief view of a lonely journey far out in space.

But on top of that it is a work of art. One of the best combinations of amazing space photography, glitchy artifacts, smooth time-lapse. It’s like a fever dream of 90s music video perfection.

Put on your favorite albums and watch it. The glitches are bound to sync with some beat or another at some point.

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Re:11 Years of Cassini Saturn Photos [video] by vatys on Monday June 27, 2016 @12:52AM (#11984255)

Also, from OP's submission history, here is the original WSJ page for this with additional clips: http://graphics.wsj.com/saturn/

Jon Keegan (WSJ) also provided a link to tools used to generate this and other videos from the source images: https://github.com/jonkeegan/cassini-tools

Overall, a very cool project.

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Re:11 Years of Cassini Saturn Photos [video] by WalterBright on Monday June 27, 2016 @03:37AM (#11984679)

I like the part where the probe went through the Star Gate.

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Re:11 Years of Cassini Saturn Photos [video] by basicplus2 on Monday June 27, 2016 @07:27AM (#11985467)

who's the dude dancing at the end?

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