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Awesome pictures of Saturn
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| Acton |
Enceladus is one of the most interesting moons in the Solar System, I love seeing pictures of it.
Also love the picture below, I saw it ages ago, but it's still great to see what the gravity field from Prometheus is actually doing to the rings.
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| Capitalizt |
Anyone else notice the death star prototype?
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| Marcus Summers |
| I think it's common knowledge that the death star design was based on mimas. |
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| ziptnf |
| quote: | Originally posted by Marcus Summers
I think it's common knowledge that the death star design was based on mimas. |
| quote: | Originally posted by Wikipedia
When seen from certain angles, Mimas closely resembles the Death Star, a space station known from the film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, which is also said to be several hundred kilometres in diameter. This is purely coincidental, as the first film was made three years before the first close-up photographs of Mimas were taken. |
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| Acton |
| quote: | Originally posted by Marcus Summers
I think it's common knowledge that the death star design was based on mimas. |
No, it's common knowledge that the Mimas design was based on the Death Star. |
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| Marcus Summers |
| quote: | Originally posted by ziptnf
quotes from wikipedia |
yeah... no thanks. |
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| ziptnf |
| quote: | Originally posted by Marcus Summers
yeah... no thanks. |
Prove me wrong then ;) |
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| Acton |
| quote: | Originally posted by Marcus Summers
yeah... no thanks. |
"Saturn's diminutive moon, Mimas, poses as the Death Star - the planet-destroying space station from the movie Star Wars - in an image recently captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
A giant crater 138 kilometres across dominates the landscape of Mimas and represents almost one-third of the moon's diameter.
Scientists first noticed Mimas's resemblance to the Death Star when the twin Voyager spacecraft flew past Saturn in 1980 and 1981. The second film in the movie series - The Empire Strikes Back - had just hit movie theatres, recalls Cassini deputy project scientist Linda Spilker."
http://www.newscientist.com/article...stars-twin.html
That any better? |
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| Marcus Summers |
| quote: | Originally posted by Acton
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still not good enough |
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| ziptnf |
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