Re:Cassini Beams Back First Images from New Orbit
by dyukqu on Thursday December 08, 2016 @01:48AM
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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.
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Re:Cassini Beams Back First Images from New Orbit
by IndianAstronaut on Thursday December 08, 2016 @03:26AM
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Saturn also has way cooler moons. Enceladus with jets of water. Titan with lakes and a thick atmosphere. Mimas, which looks like the death star.
Re:Cassini Beams Back First Images from New Orbit
by Pigo on Thursday December 08, 2016 @09:05AM
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It's hard not to find Saturn intriguing, the rings, the colors, the moons. It's the first time I saw something through a telescope that was awe inspiring. It almost seemed cartoonish with it's vibrancy and sharp edges. It's enough to make anyone want to take up astronomy.
Re:Cassini Beams Back First Images from New Orbit
by dekhn on Thursday December 08, 2016 @01:21PM
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yeah. I also found seeing the moons of jupiter around jupiter pretty amazing. can kind of see how galileo came to the conclusions he did.
Re:Cassini Beams Back First Images from New Orbit
by prawn on Thursday December 08, 2016 @01:57AM
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Perhaps from a huge distance, but I think we win the title on any other scale. Earth is pretty stunning.
Re:Cassini Beams Back First Images from New Orbit
by isfield on Thursday December 08, 2016 @03:54AM
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It's like the school playground arguments over which computer is better, the Amiga or Atari ST again. Only this time with planets. Imho Earth is better; it has a blitter... I mean liquid water oceans...