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Took a tour of a universe with a few planets to see. Polar ice caps. Storms. An "eye" that resembles my head. Myriad of colours. Wonder what lies beneath some of the atmospheric clouds?
The sun came out after a mostly-cloudy day, and the sky was gorgeous.
Lake Ontario, Confederation Park, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
I thought I’d mix things up this week with a pixel based tutorial from PSDVault. You can follow the tutorial here: www.psdvault.com/drawing/easily-create-planetary-ring-via....
PSDVault tends to have a lot of “spacey” type tutorials, although this one lacks a little depth. It would be a great experiment to follow all of their spacey tutorials and then combine them in one composition.
The Cassini spacecraft captures the ripples, loops and storms that swirl
in Saturn's east-west flowing cloud bands.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera using a
spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 728
nanometers. The view was obtained on Dec. 13, 2006 at a distance of
approximately 775,000 kilometers (482,000 miles) from Saturn. Image scale
is 43 kilometers (27 miles) per pixel.
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