Amazing pic of Titan/Saturn

[Locut0s]

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120105.html

 

[Aharami]

love going through the NASA astronomy pics!

 

[KaOTiK]

It's real, it's amazing
If it was fake, it be lol'd at saying their cat could use paint better
heh

 

[ElFenix]

 

[ichy]

Ha, good one ElFenix.

The Saturn V picture is a depressing reminder of the capabilities that we've thrown away 🙁

 

[-Slacker-]

What's the gray horizontal bar right behind titan? Is that some sort of virtual representation of it's orbital trajectory?

 

[ImpulsE69]

What's the gray horizontal bar right behind titan? Is that some sort of virtual representation of it's orbital trajectory?

Just an illusion of being straight, but it's a different section of a ring (or break in the ring). Awesome picture.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

This is what I was thinking.

 

[jalaram]

What's the gray horizontal bar right behind titan? Is that some sort of virtual representation of it's orbital trajectory?

I think the bar is the rings seen on edge. The blacks rings below are the shadows.

[edit] Must click on link

Remarkably thin, the bright rings still cast arcing shadows across the planet's cloud tops

 

[Pocatello]

Wow, I love those NASA pictures.

 

[Blackjack200]

I love Saturn. My favorite planet and favorite celestial object. So beautiful and peaceful looking.

 

[DesiPower]

I love Saturn. My favorite planet and favorite celestial object. So beautiful and peaceful looking.

Mine is Uranus

jokes aside, is this a real picture, as seen by naked eye or some infrared, ultrasound or some crap like that?

 

[Blackjack200]

taken by Cassini

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Nice pic, but for ffs NASA needs to upload 30mb pics instead of craptacular resolution.

 

[ViviTheMage]

I would live there.

 

[BudAshes]

That picture confuses me, what is the big sphere and little sphere?

 

[Squisher]

That picture confuses me, what is the big sphere and little sphere?

The big sphere is a discontinued division of GM, the smaller one is a class of rocket that was used for everything from the Mercury space missions to the launch of satellites and space probes..

 

[Miramonti]

Nice pic, but since Nasa photoshops the sh!t out of their releases, I'm simply not impressed with this one.

 

[LTC8K6]

Saturn is not in the pic though...

You have Titan and Dione and Saturn's rings in the background.

 

[DrPizza]

There was a remarkable picture of Titan, Dione, Pandora, and Pan, as well as the rings posted here a month or so ago. (Tis my desktop now.) Search is temporarily borked, so I'm not looking for it. 😛

 

[SunnyD]

Ya'll forgot

 

[Vic Vega]

We need to send people to Titan. Forget Mars, Titan has water, that means we can create oxygen for settlements.

 

[gevorg]

the photo is unbelievable, almost like 3D rendering, still fascinating though

 

[gevorg]

Checkout this one from the same site, "untethered space walk" as NASA calls it 🙂

 

[Chaotic42]

Observational astronomy is so awesome.