PSK RESEARCH
Main Menu => Science, Astronomy, & Physics => Topic started by: Psk on October 18, 2015, 08:37:18 PM
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With all the new pictures coming from new space probes out there, & the New Horizons Pluto pictures, we tend to forget we have lots other probes out there doing science & taking pictures every day.
The nuclear powered spacecraft Cassini is still 100% functional, orbiting Saturn, & snapping images of Saturn & its moons.
Launched in 1997, it got a gravity/speed boost by a close flyby of Venus in 1998. After passing by Jupiter, it arrived in orbit around Saturn in June 2004. It is a dual-probe which launched its Huygens probe into Titan's atmosphere in December 2004.
It takes 84 minutes for radio signals from Cassini at the speed of light to reach Earth. As far away as Saturn is, that's nothing compared to the New Horizons probe that flew by Pluto. It takes 9 hours for radio signals to reach earth from Pluto.
Here's my favorite Cassini pictures. Many of them won't be seen in such clarity & detail anywhere else because they were specially enhanced by me & my exclusive homemade imaging software. Bigger pictures don't matter if they're blurry.
Enjoy Astro Fans!
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More favorite images from the Cassini space probe.
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More favorite pictures from the Cassini space probe.
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More favorite images from Saturn & Cassini.
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Best of the Cassini space probe images.
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Best pictures from Saturn & Jupiter.
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The last one in this post is a picture of the earth & moon from the telescopic camera on the Cassini spacecraft around Saturn.