Unimagineable beauty

The beauty of this image brings tears to my eyes.


http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050211.html

Serene blue hues highlight this view of Saturn's northern hemisphere
from the Cassini spacecraft. The image has been adjusted to approximate
the natural blue color of visible sunlight scattered by the gas giant's
upper atmosphere. Saturn's famous rings cast the dark shadows stretching
across the frame with infamous cratered moon Mimas lurking at the lower
left. Orbiting beyond the main inner rings, Mimas itself is 400
kilometers across and lies nearly 200,000 kilometers, over 3 Saturn
radii, from the center of the planet. Still, Mimas orbits within
Saturn's faint and tenuous outer E ring.

Alex:
The beauty of this image brings tears to my eyes.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050211.html

Perhaps your monitor needs a bit of adjusting? ;)

No, wait -- seriously -- it has a cold, haunting beauty to my eyes.
Save the image to disk; there is a little more to see than the web page
shows.

Davoud

Alex wrote:
The beauty of this image brings tears to my eyes.


http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050211.html

Serene blue hues highlight this view of Saturn's northern hemisphere
from the Cassini spacecraft. The image has been adjusted to approximate
the natural blue color of visible sunlight scattered by the gas giant's
upper atmosphere. Saturn's famous rings cast the dark shadows stretching
across the frame with infamous cratered moon Mimas lurking at the lower
left. Orbiting beyond the main inner rings, Mimas itself is 400
kilometers across and lies nearly 200,000 kilometers, over 3 Saturn
radii, from the center of the planet. Still, Mimas orbits within
Saturn's faint and tenuous outer E ring.

Indeed..

"Alex" wrote in message
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The beauty of this image brings tears to my eyes.



Is it your time of the month??

- thats one of the worst golf shots Ive ever seen

Alex wrote:
The beauty of this image brings tears to my eyes.


http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050211.html

Serene blue hues highlight this view of Saturn's northern hemisphere
from the Cassini spacecraft. The image has been adjusted to approximate
the natural blue color of visible sunlight scattered by the gas giant's
upper atmosphere. Saturn's famous rings cast the dark shadows stretching
across the frame with infamous cratered moon Mimas lurking at the lower
left. Orbiting beyond the main inner rings, Mimas itself is 400
kilometers across and lies nearly 200,000 kilometers, over 3 Saturn
radii, from the center of the planet. Still, Mimas orbits within
Saturn's faint and tenuous outer E ring.

Gosh, it's nice and all, but tears? Are you sure you're not allergic to
your cat? :-)
Seriously, nice link. Thanks.

Shawn

"Alex" wrote:

The beauty of this image brings tears to my eyes.

And there's mo
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/index.cfm

"Alex" wrote in message
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The beauty of this image brings tears to my eyes.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050211.html

It looks 3-D even on the flat screen, with the moon floating above the
rings.

It is beautiful.

Chuck Taylor
Do you observe the moon?
Try http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lunar-observing/

Are you interested in understanding optics?
Try http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ATM_Optics_Software/

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Serene blue hues highlight this view of Saturn's northern hemisphere
from the Cassini spacecraft. The image has been adjusted to approximate
the natural blue color of visible sunlight scattered by the gas giant's
upper atmosphere. Saturn's famous rings cast the dark shadows stretching
across the frame with infamous cratered moon Mimas lurking at the lower
left. Orbiting beyond the main inner rings, Mimas itself is 400
kilometers across and lies nearly 200,000 kilometers, over 3 Saturn
radii, from the center of the planet. Still, Mimas orbits within
Saturn's faint and tenuous outer E ring.