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This colorful view, taken from edge-on with the ringplane, contains four
of Saturn's attendant moons. Tethys (1,071 kilometers, 665 miles across)
is seen against the black sky to the left of the gas giant's limb.
Brilliant Enceladus (505 kilometers, 314 miles across) sits against the
planet near right. Irregular Hyperion (280 kilometers, 174 miles across)
is at the bottom of the image, near left. Much smaller Epimetheus (116
kilometers, 72 miles across) is a speck below the rings directly between
Tethys and Enceladus. Epimetheus casts an equally tiny shadow onto the
blue northern hemisphere, just above the thin shadow of the F ring.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to
create this natural color view. The images were acquired with the Cassini
spacecraft wide-angle camera on July 24, 2007 at a distance of
approximately 2 million kilometers (1.2 million miles) from Saturn. Image
scale is 116 kilometers (72 miles) per pixel on Saturn.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at ciclops.org.
credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
The CATT (Configurable All-Terrain Truck) is a modular space vehicle designed for easily changing attachments and features for different capabilities. This is a longer 4-seat variant of my original from last year:
As the United States faces rising geopolitical threats in outer space—and countries like China and Russia advance their own so-called “counterspace” programs—the US is considering adding a sixth military branch, its first since the Air Force in 1947. The Washington Ideas Roundtable Series featured Capitol Hill’s two most vocal leaders on space issues, discussing the modern threat environment and the Pentagon’s approach to the next frontier.
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Riccardo Savi
I love the crowded spaces of Hong Kong streets. Everything seems like it's out of "Blade Runner" or "The Fifth Element" or even "Firefly" in their Sino-futuristic-rusticism.
35mm film, not sure what camera. Epson Perfection V500 Photo scanner. Professional mode. Color film negative. 48-bit color. 2400 dpi. JPEG. No edit.
3birds Coworking Space 自由鳥共享工作間
3birds Coworking Space- 6B, Tung Kin Factory Building, 196-198 Tsat Tsz Mui Road, North Point
Bright spokes grace Saturn's B ring in this Cassini image.
To learn more about the ghostly radial markings called spokes, see PIA11144
and PIA08288. Spokes appear bright when they are viewed at phase,
or Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, angles higher than about 45 degrees. The phase
angle in this image is 61 degrees.
Prometheus (86 kilometers, or 53 miles across) orbits between the A ring
and the thin F ring. Epimetheus (113 kilometers, or 70 miles across)
orbits beyond the F ring in the top left of the image. The bright dot in
the top right is a star.
Scale in the original image was 71 kilometers (44 miles) per pixel. The
image has been magnified by a factor of 1.5 and contrast-enhanced to aid
visibility.
This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from about
12 degrees above the ringplane.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
wide-angle camera on Sept. 22, 2009. The view was acquired at a distance
of approximately 1.2 million kilometers (746,000 miles) from Saturn and at
a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 61 degrees.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at ciclops.org.credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Image Addition Date:
2009-12-07