Phoebe

[Wabbit]

For those interested

Cassini probe has not entered proper into the Saturn planatary system It has taken the closest picture of mysterious moon of Phobe! Thease photos are amazing and MUCH better than the old blurry photos that we had before.

Of all the space missions ( even the Mars rovers mission ) Cassini is the one that excites me the most!!! It has been sending back some truely astounding pictures of Saturn itself!!! And I can't wait until it actually gets there and sends down the huygens probe to the surface of Titan

Anyway, here is phobe

 

[Sapper41]

I had a buger that looked like that once, after spending about 45 days in the desert, it was about that size too.

 

[Crystal]

Really amazing, this whole universe! anything ever more mysterious than the universe?!

 

[Wabbit]

Yeah, it is one of the most amazing things

Have you seen the close ups of Saturn?

 

[Wabbit]

Saturn



Amazing huh?

We are looking at a HUGE and distant alien world. It always fills me with such awe and wonder!

 

[Wabbit]

Saturn from Cassini probe

Should have mentioned that the first pic is view from the Hubble Space Telescope!

This image is even better and closer ( obviously ) You can even see a moon in the bottom corner!



"The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft returned this image of Saturn on May 16, 2004, when its imaging science subsystem narrow-angle camera was too close to fit the entire planet in its field-of-view. Cassini is still about 20 million kilometers (12.4 million miles) away and only 36 days from reaching Saturn. Cassini has two cameras, a wide angle and narrow angle. This narrow angle image was made using a combination of three filters (red, green, blue) and was taken at a range of 24.3 million kilometers (15.1 million miles). The view is from 13 degrees below the equator. Enceladus, one of Saturn's 31 known moons, appears near the south pole at the bottom of the image."

 

[Sapper41]

Not sure where you get your picture so you might already know of this site

Astronomy Picture of the Day

If you dont its a GREAT site if you love space exploration, pictures and all that good stuff that makes you feel very small.

 

[Wabbit]

I didn't know that one! Thanks, I bookmarked it

 

[Crystal]

OMG!! they are so beautiful and amazing! Ah---, really beautiful---! (Thanks for your pic, sillywabbit)

Thanks for your link, sapper41

 

[Sapper41]

If you have time look at the Archive it goes back to 1993 or somehting like that I cant remember, and if you have somemore time look at every single picture

 

[Wabbit]

OMG!! they are so beautiful and amazing! Ah---, really beautiful---! (Thanks for your pic, sillywabbit)

Thanks for your link, sapper41

Welcome for the pics

 

[Ice]

Lovely photo's Wabbit, i've taken the first one to use as my desktop

 

[Wabbit]

GREAT! Glad that you liked them

I had one of Saturn on my desktop myself a while back

 

[RainbowGurl]

For those interested

Cassini probe has not entered proper into the Saturn planatary system It has taken the closest picture of mysterious moon of Phobe! Thease photos are amazing and MUCH better than the old blurry photos that we had before.

Of all the space missions ( even the Mars rovers mission ) Cassini is the one that excites me the most!!! It has been sending back some truely astounding pictures of Saturn itself!!! And I can't wait until it actually gets there and sends down the huygens probe to the surface of Titan

Anyway, here is phobe

Yikes!

 

[VTChEwbecca]

I love photographs of Saturn, its such a beautiful planet. Its my favorite of all our planets...I had several photographs of it for my desktop a while back.

 

[Wabbit]

And as Cassini gets closer we can expect better and better photos of it

 

[Themistocles]

The space probes and telescopes really pick up some stunning images, stunning in every respect. not just their beauty but when you factor in their titanic scale and, in the case of other stars and nebulae, the age of the images, it really is incredible. And people wonder why there are so many sci-fi authors-it's obvious, the universe, outside what we know, is the most inspiring of things. (Although that's a big generalisation, considering how much the universe contains i.e. everything bar possible parallel dimensions...)

 

[Martin]

That first photo of Saturn looks like a model, hanging from a wire. It's so real it looks fake.

Brilliant photo's Wabbster! Fascinating stuff!

Cheers, Martin

 

[Wabbit]

Thanks, glad you like them

 

[Wabbit]

Another update

New and even closer photos have been realeased. Just stunning...

Thease shots always fill me with such wonder