Tag: Saturn

  • Stunning Photos from NASA’s Sptizer Telescope

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    Wired celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Spitzer Star Telescope by sharing some of the extraordinary images it has produced: For 10 years, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has been helping scientists on Earth learn more about the mysterious objects hiding in our star-studded skies. On August 25, 2003, the telescope — carrying a relatively small, 0.85-meter beryllium…

  • Fun Animation of the Solar System

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    If you needed a quick reminder of how small you are in the universe, just check out this video, created by designer Philipp Dettmer. It’ll give you the basic run-down of the solar system: how many moons each planet has, how far apart they are, etc., plus a few fun tidbits (Saturn would float if you…

  • NASA releases Saturn-Earth ‘photobomb’ pic

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    The US space agency has released a rare photo of the Earth and moon taken from the vantage point of the outer solar system, with Saturn’s rings in the shot. The color images were taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft at a distance of nearly 1.4 billion kilometers away, NASA said. After calling on Earthlings to wave at Cassini for…

  • Photo of the Day

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    A composite of several Cassini images shows Titan’s varied surface, including possibly a remnant of an old impact basin (large circular feature near the center of Titan’s disk). Mountain ranges to the southeast of the circular feature, and the dark linear feature to the northwest of the circular impact scar may be evidence of past…