You guys like Saturn, right? Here’s a whole gallery of Saturn GIFs, from rings to moons, captured by the Cassini spacecraft. They’re part modern art and part science. Next to the Voyager twins, I think Cassini might be the best satellite NASA ever launched. Certainly takes the best pictures. Tumblr’s own staceythinx  has an iPad app called Cassini HD that features even more photos, plus color, plus science. (GIFs by framesandflames)
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You guys like Saturn, right? Here’s a whole gallery of Saturn GIFs, from rings to moons, captured by the Cassini spacecraft. They’re part modern art and part science. Next to the Voyager twins, I think Cassini might be the best satellite NASA ever launched. Certainly takes the best pictures. Tumblr’s own staceythinx  has an iPad app called Cassini HD that features even more photos, plus color, plus science. (GIFs by framesandflames)
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You guys like Saturn, right? Here’s a whole gallery of Saturn GIFs, from rings to moons, captured by the Cassini spacecraft. They’re part modern art and part science. Next to the Voyager twins, I think Cassini might be the best satellite NASA ever launched. Certainly takes the best pictures. Tumblr’s own staceythinx  has an iPad app called Cassini HD that features even more photos, plus color, plus science. (GIFs by framesandflames)
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You guys like Saturn, right? Here’s a whole gallery of Saturn GIFs, from rings to moons, captured by the Cassini spacecraft. They’re part modern art and part science. Next to the Voyager twins, I think Cassini might be the best satellite NASA ever launched. Certainly takes the best pictures. Tumblr’s own staceythinx  has an iPad app called Cassini HD that features even more photos, plus color, plus science. (GIFs by framesandflames)
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You guys like Saturn, right? Here’s a whole gallery of Saturn GIFs, from rings to moons, captured by the Cassini spacecraft. They’re part modern art and part science. Next to the Voyager twins, I think Cassini might be the best satellite NASA ever launched. Certainly takes the best pictures. Tumblr’s own staceythinx  has an iPad app called Cassini HD that features even more photos, plus color, plus science. (GIFs by framesandflames)
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You guys like Saturn, right? Here’s a whole gallery of Saturn GIFs, from rings to moons, captured by the Cassini spacecraft. They’re part modern art and part science. Next to the Voyager twins, I think Cassini might be the best satellite NASA ever launched. Certainly takes the best pictures. Tumblr’s own staceythinx  has an iPad app called Cassini HD that features even more photos, plus color, plus science. (GIFs by framesandflames)
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You guys like Saturn, right? Here’s a whole gallery of Saturn GIFs, from rings to moons, captured by the Cassini spacecraft. They’re part modern art and part science. Next to the Voyager twins, I think Cassini might be the best satellite NASA ever launched. Certainly takes the best pictures. Tumblr’s own staceythinx  has an iPad app called Cassini HD that features even more photos, plus color, plus science. (GIFs by framesandflames)
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You guys like Saturn, right? Here’s a whole gallery of Saturn GIFs, from rings to moons, captured by the Cassini spacecraft. They’re part modern art and part science.

Next to the Voyager twins, I think Cassini might be the best satellite NASA ever launched. Certainly takes the best pictures. Tumblr’s own staceythinx  has an iPad app called Cassini HD that features even more photos, plus color, plus science.

(GIFs by framesandflames)

staceythinx: While selecting images to include in our Cassini HD app I came across some great gifs. Unfortunately, I couldn’t include them in the app, so I’ll be posting them here instead.  Saturn’s moon Mimas will never not look exactly like the Death Star, especially when it’s moving.
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staceythinx: While selecting images to include in our Cassini HD app I came across some great gifs. Unfortunately, I couldn’t include them in the app, so I’ll be posting them here instead.  Saturn’s moon Mimas will never not look exactly like the Death Star, especially when it’s moving.
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staceythinx: While selecting images to include in our Cassini HD app I came across some great gifs. Unfortunately, I couldn’t include them in the app, so I’ll be posting them here instead.  Saturn’s moon Mimas will never not look exactly like the Death Star, especially when it’s moving.
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staceythinx:

While selecting images to include in our Cassini HD app I came across some great gifs. Unfortunately, I couldn’t include them in the app, so I’ll be posting them here instead. 

Saturn’s moon Mimas will never not look exactly like the Death Star, especially when it’s moving.

Outer Space. The View From Cassini and Voyager

Jaw ————> Floor.

If Rocky Balboa was an aspiring astronomer, this is what he would watch every morning to get pumped up instead of running up that damned staircase.

Sander van den Berg has assembled a plethora of images from the Cassini and Voyager missions, in their “raw” black and white, to create this simple, awe-inspiring and sometimes haunting tour through near outer space.

I know I’ve been heavy on the space stuff lately, but with videos like these sending my brain flying out the back of my head how can I not post it?!?!? :)

(by Sander van den Berg)

Source: vimeo.com

Oct. 25, 1671: Giovanni Cassini Spots a Two-Toned Saturnian Moon On this day in 1671, Giovanni Cassini (namesake of the Saturnian satellite) discovered the odd two-toned moon Iapetus (eye-AP-i-tus). It was evident that it had a light and dark hemisphere. Centuries of study and fly-bys from Voyager and Cassini spacecraft have led us to believe that it either ate up a load of dark space dust with its gravity, or that the dark material is spewing from inside the moon like ashy lava. (via Wired.com)
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Oct. 25, 1671: Giovanni Cassini Spots a Two-Toned Saturnian Moon

On this day in 1671, Giovanni Cassini (namesake of the Saturnian satellite) discovered the odd two-toned moon Iapetus (eye-AP-i-tus). It was evident that it had a light and dark hemisphere.

Centuries of study and fly-bys from Voyager and Cassini spacecraft have led us to believe that it either ate up a load of dark space dust with its gravity, or that the dark material is spewing from inside the moon like ashy lava.

(via Wired.com)

Source: Wired

A hidden world revealed: Saturn’s largest moon Titan mapped by infrared Titan has an atmosphere that is impenetrable to visible light. So the Cassini orbiter has been snapping images of the moon using infrared imagery for the past several years. After many, many passes it finally captured enough to make the above composite of Titan’s surface features. Dunes, mountains, lakes of bubbling methane … it’s all there. Sounds peachy! What’s that? You’re more into video composites? Then check it: (via Bad Astronomy)
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A hidden world revealed: Saturn’s largest moon Titan mapped by infrared

Titan has an atmosphere that is impenetrable to visible light. So the Cassini orbiter has been snapping images of the moon using infrared imagery for the past several years. After many, many passes it finally captured enough to make the above composite of Titan’s surface features.

Dunes, mountains, lakes of bubbling methane … it’s all there. Sounds peachy!

What’s that? You’re more into video composites? Then check it:

(via Bad Astronomy)

Source: blogs.discovermagazine.com