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Cannot get enough of this anime. Every episode I watch just consistently is my new favorite in the series. Did a frame redraw from the episode "A race in space is dangerous, baby."
Uncensored version is on my deviantart:
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Space Shuttle Discovery after landing at Edards Air Force Base, CA and going past the Air Traffic Control Tower (ATCT) and on to the NASA facilities on base. Picture taken in 1988.
Distant Rhea (right) poses here for the Cassini spacecraft, as Pandora
hovers against Saturn's dark shadow on the rings.
This image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on Feb. 12, 2006, at a distance of approximately 3.6
million kilometers (2.3 million miles) from Pandora and 4.3 million
kilometers (2.7 million miles) from Rhea. The image scale is 26 kilometers
(16 miles) per pixel on Rhea.
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 rings split the planet in two in this Cassini spacecraft view of a crescent Saturn.Saturn's moon Tethys (1,062 kilometers, or 660 miles across) is the small dot on the left of the image, below the rings. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ringplane.The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Nov. 28, 2009 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 752 nanometers. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 2.5 million kilometers (1.5 million miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 103 degrees. Image scale is 143 kilometers (89 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
Image Addition Date:
2010-05-24
The Space Needle is a tower in Seattle, Washington and a major landmark of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and a symbol of Seattle.
Although the sun is on the other side of Saturn in this dramatic image, some sunlight scatters through the uppermost part of the atmosphere to reach the Cassini spacecraft's cameras.This image was taken at a high phase, or Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, angle of 172 degrees -- meaning Cassini was on the dark side of the planet at the time. Light passing through the atmosphere creates the bright arc seen from the top to the bottom of the image.Saturn's rings, at middle right in the image, show the shadow of the planet being cast upon them. Just below the center of the image the light passing through Saturn's atmosphere is blocked from Cassini by the B ring.The sun is now shining on the northern side of the rings, so the shadow of the rings on the lit side of the planet (away from Cassini) was cast down onto the southern limb of the planet, making the bright arc appear dark near the bottom middle of the image. The presence of the Cassini Division is illustrated in the small bit of scattered light it has allowed through near the bottom of the image.For another dramatic view of Saturn in eclipse, see PIA08329.This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ringplane.The image was taken in visible green light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Feb. 13, 2010. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 373,000 kilometers (232,000 miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 19 kilometers (12 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
Image Addition Date:
2010-04-02
Cassini caught this intriguing view of a dark storm near the limb of
Saturn on Sept. 9, 2004. The image shows a great deal of detail in the
gas giant's turbulent atmosphere.
The bright triangle at right is an overexposed part of Saturn's A ring,
with the F ring faintly visible beneath.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera at a
distance of 8.8 million kilometers (5.5 million miles) from Saturn,
through a filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light. The image
scale is 104 kilometers (65 miles) per pixel. The image was magnified by
a factor of two and slightly contrast-enhanced to improve visibility of
features in the atmosphere.
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 Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Office of Space Science,
Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras, were
designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at
the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information, about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit,
saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/ and the Cassini imaging team home page,
credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Space Invader by the River Thames
It is on the side of Nando's chicken restaurant by the Anchor pub on the South Bank, London.
From right to left in the mosaic, each fan appears dark above the bright core of the F ring near the larger, diagonal channels created by the ring's shepherding moon Prometheus. The fans (marked "F" in the annotated version) can be seen developing as a series of channels within the F ring's particles. They appear to have a common origin but spread outward radially in different directions. Gravitational perturbations on ring material by a moonlet or clump of material can create these fans. The moonlet or clump orbits more or less elliptically compared to the rest of the F ring. It is probably embedded in the ring and causing the base of the fan channels to meet. See PIA12785 and PIA12786 for similar observations of such fans.The diagonal streamer-channels are periodically created by the gravity of the potato-shaped moon Prometheus which is 148 kilometers (92 miles) on its longest side but is on average 86 kilometers (53 miles) across. To learn more and to watch a movie of this streamer-channel phenomenon, see PIA08397.The images have been re-projected in this mosaic so that the F ring appears straightened rather than curved and compressed azimuthally (along the ring). This change represents a scale compression in the horizontal direction of about 33 to one which is why Prometheus looks like a bright line. Prometheus is marked "Pr" in the annotated version.This sequence of 10 images was taken over the span of about one hour, 14 minutes. The earliest image is on the right, and time progresses moving left in the mosaic. Each image was cropped, re-projected and placed side by side in this montage. Scale in the original images was about 6 kilometers (4 miles) per pixel. The images were contrast enhanced and re-projected to a scale of 33 kilometers (21 miles) per pixel in the mosaic's horizontal direction and one kilometer (0.6 miles) per pixel in the mosaic's vertical direction. The single, cropped inset of the clumps included here was then magnified by a factor of two.The view in the original images looked toward the northern, unilluminated side of the rings from about 26 degrees above the ring plane.The images were taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on July 5, 2008. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.1 million kilometers (684,000 miles) from Saturn and at a sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 34 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: 2010-07-20