Images of the rings of Saturn pix 1,2: (outer (B) ring, pix 1,2; inner (A) ring, pic 3 and a detail of a density wave, pic 4) taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, now in the midst of its ‘ring grazing’ phase as it moves in to study the outer and inner disks of orbiting ice and rock.
These images are twice the resolution of anything previously achievable and allow objects as small as 550m (about the height of the CN Tower in Toronto) to be discerned.
Full resolution photos here.
Previously: The Seas Of Titan
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My God. It’s full of moons.
muons
Full moon. Half moon. No moon.
It looks like an information storage medium.
So I follow NASA on Twitter. Boring.
They other day they Tweeted about installing an ethernet cable on a space walk.
I know everything in space is dramatically more difficult than on the ground but seriously?
People went other moon 40 or so years ago! They survived an exploding oxygen tank and still went around the moon and back. With a combined computing power that was less than my phones.
Is it the money or fear holding back NASA?
You know there are many out there willing to die to get a dangerous journey into space in. That’s been proven.
Obviously you should be in charge. Of everything.
That’s a given
There’s a video up on you tube about what could NASA do if it had the US Defence Budget for 1 year.
US Defence budget = $600bil
Money well spent eh dav!
Not really since they are living in fear and hatred and have elected a man as president to reflect that fear and hatred
“people went to the moon 40 or so years ago”
“It is commonly believed that man will fly directly from the earth to the moon, but to do this, we would require a vehicle of such gigantic proportions that it would prove an economic impossibility. It would have to develop sufficient speed to penetrate the atmosphere and overcome the earth s gravity and, having traveled all the way to the moon, it must still have enough fuel to land safely and make the return trip to earth. Furthermore, in order to give the expedition a margin of safety, we would not use one ship alone, but a minimum of three & each rocket ship would be taller than New York s Empire State Building [almost º mile high] and weigh about ten times the tonnage of the Queen Mary, or some 800,000 tons.”
Wernher von Braun, the father of the Apollo space program, writing in Conquest of the Moon
Because when someone mentions Wernher von Braun, you have to do the Wernher von Braun song.
https://youtu.be/TjDEsGZLbio
“People went other moon 40 or so years ago!”
there are people who still believe that? hahahahaha
Clearly
Space exploration is currently in its heydey. There are probes all over the solar system sending back data, and a robot on Mars.
I love this chart:
http://www.5wgraphics.com/img/newsletter/50-years-of-exploration.jpg
i have the NASA app on my phone. it’s marvelous.
NASA is one of the few things I’m actively happy my taxes support.
ID’s post above is the stupidest fupping thing I’ve read today.
+100
+ some more
Unfortunately they’re about to get their budget gutted under Trump