Showing posts with label wow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wow. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

cassini pics from saturn


Wow. Just...wow. That is an amazing shot of Saturn's moon Enceladus, taken from the Cassini-Huygens probe.

These are amazing. Pictures taken from the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn. Many more pics and info on what they are and what they mean at the second link above.

Here's a few more.


The moon Rhea seemingly hanging by a thread from Saturn's rings.


Mimas above Saturn's rings


Epimetheus before Titan.


And finally Saturn itself. Remember, these are photographs, mostly just raw (although the above had some light filtration to bring out Saturn's rings more) as seen from the spacecraft. Would it be worth twenty or thirty years of your life to see that yourself? (Not that Cassini is actually coming back or is manned. Just saying.)

Makes you feel kinda small, yeah? :)

(oh, via metafilter.)

Saturday, February 21, 2009

always remember:

Forget that whole 'the family that prays together stays together' thing.

The new hotness: 'The fat-ass couple that rides to Wal-Mart on a Rascal together, stays together.'



via neatorama.