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Re:  Cassini - is it just me who's excited?
« Reply #30 on: January 16, 2004, 09:50:59 PM »
appraoch science phase started!

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=11554

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=13430
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Re:  Cassini - is it just me who's excited?
« Reply #31 on: January 17, 2004, 06:23:56 AM »
Rem, those links don't work for me?

Not much going on at the Cassini site either - I wish they'd give the media a "latest pic" from the craft. Now would be a good time!

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Re:  Cassini - is it just me who's excited?
« Reply #32 on: January 18, 2004, 07:43:59 PM »
the links work here...maybe try again?
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New Saturn image from Cassini!
« Reply #33 on: February 27, 2004, 03:26:12 AM »
Woo-Hoo!

This is stunning!



Larger formats available at the JPL website!

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Re:  Cassini - is it just me who's excited?
« Reply #34 on: February 27, 2004, 03:40:14 AM »
The details in the full-size jpeg are gorgeous!

You see the shadow of the planet on the rings, the shadow of the rings on the planet, the planet through the Cassini Division, and if you look carefully, you realize that you can see the bottom edge of the ring shadow on the cloud tops even through the A ring!

Tons of other subtle detail in the rings and the belts of the cloud tops as well.  

Link to full size JPEG:

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA05380.jpg

Just four months to orbit insertion!

Jim
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Re:  Cassini - is it just me who's excited?
« Reply #35 on: February 28, 2004, 12:44:36 AM »
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/f/034/1F131212520EDN0500P1141R0M1.HTML

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press-releases-04/20040227-pr-a.cfm

They expect weekly pictures like that, so you can actually see the Cassini closing in!!

Man, I hope SOI goes well, and not just because of interest...(this remark may become clear later)
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Re:  Cassini - is it just me who's excited?
« Reply #36 on: February 28, 2004, 09:50:08 AM »
Absolutely beautiful  :)

Saturn is now 60% bigger to Cassini than in the pic released from November!

Imagine in another month...two months....

The Mars Rovers have been interesting, workmanlike even and now the interest of the public wanes a little. Aside from the science, the Cassini mission will, I believe, re-introduce us to the majesty of space. Pics like this are just the start 8)


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Re:  Cassini - is it just me who's excited?
« Reply #37 on: March 05, 2004, 11:04:42 PM »
New picture :)

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/cgibin/gs2.cgi?path=../multimedia/images/saturn/images/PIA05381.jpg&type=image
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Re:  Cassini - is it just me who's excited?
« Reply #38 on: March 10, 2004, 08:09:08 AM »


since the old one doesn't update anymore...
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Re:  Cassini - is it just me who's excited?
« Reply #39 on: March 12, 2004, 11:47:21 PM »
The Cassini website (saturn.jpl.nasa.gov) has a new picture every week  [smiley=beatnik2.gif]

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/cgibin/gs2.cgi?path=../multimedia/images/rings/images/PIA05382.jpg&type=image
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Re: Cassini - is it just me who's excited?
« Reply #40 on: March 13, 2004, 01:05:26 AM »
The images are stunning. It reminds me of the time during the winter of 1977 or 1978, when I looked at Saturn through an 18-inch telescope as part of astrophysics class. The plane of rings were tilted toward earth. I felt that I could reach out and hold Saturn in my hand.

It's nice to see that 17 nations and 200 scientists collaborate on such a project.
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Re:Cassini - is it just me who's excited?
« Reply #41 on: March 20, 2004, 03:00:27 AM »
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/cgibin/gs2.cgi?path=../multimedia/images/saturn/images/PIA05383.jpg&type=image
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Re:Cassini - is it just me who's excited?
« Reply #42 on: March 28, 2004, 11:19:49 AM »
this time the image of the week is a movie. Imagine what it could do once it is in orbit! 8)

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/cgibin/gs2.cgi?path=../multimedia/images/saturn/images/PIA05384.gif&type=image
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Re:Cassini - is it just me who's excited?
« Reply #43 on: April 03, 2004, 01:24:31 AM »
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=13970

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/cgibin/gs2.cgi?path=../multimedia/images/saturn/images/PIA05385.jpg&type=image

http://www.saturntoday.com/
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Re:Cassini - is it just me who's excited?
« Reply #44 on: April 05, 2004, 11:09:43 PM »
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0404/05titanshadow/

it's coming closer very quickly!
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