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Quote:Soon after orbital insertion, Cassini returned its best look yet at the heavily cratered moon Mimas (398 kilometers, 247 miles across). The enormous crater at the top of this image, named Herschel, is about 130 kilometers (80 miles) wide and 10 kilometers (6 miles) deep.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on July 3, 2004, from a distance of 1.7 million kilometers (1 million miles) from Mimas and at a Sun-Mimas-spacecraft, or phase angle of about 102 degrees. The image scale is 10 kilometers (6 miles) per pixel. The image has been magnified by a factor of two to aid visibility.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
This is what's orbitting Saturn RIGHT NOW!
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That's no Death Star!
That's a Space Boob!
... gargantuan, single, unfettered by cloth, and revolving in all its glory!
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DeeBye,Jul 27 2004, 07:31 PM Wrote:This is what's orbitting Saturn RIGHT NOW!
I'm writing my local politicians to get the terror warning up to RED ALERT, and running to Walmart to stock up on Death Ray Shelter supplies.
I propose we send a crack team to intercept. I think Harison Ford is willing to accept. Now all we need is that damn Wooky.
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Is it mechanical, or is just a moon? I doubt its a breast...
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It's the eyeball of a giant space monster. Somethng I read about saturn actually compared itto an eyeball, but death star sounds cooler.
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DeeBye,Jul 27 2004, 07:31 PM Wrote:This is what's orbitting Saturn RIGHT NOW! Just be glad it's not orbiting Uranus.*
*Disclaimer: I know its a bad joke but what do you expect on very little sleep and playing entirely too much WoW? Apologies to anyone I may have offended with this little joke. :)
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*runs off to warm up his X-Wing and stock up on Proton Torpedoes*
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You can have your X-Wing, but not the proton torpedos...those belong to a different universe. :)
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You're thinking of photon torpedoes. (Star Trek)
Star Wars does have proton torpedoes.
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Hail Pakman,
are you sure about that? In the German translation, it's "proton" torpedoes, is it different in the original version, and if yes, what did Luke use to blow up Death Star #1?
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Proton torpedoes are correct for the Star Wars universe.
In all truth, the proton torps of Star Wars and the photon torps of Star trek are one and the same: missiles with anti-matter warheads.
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I'm not as much of a nerd as I thought I was :( I am shamed.
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Anti-matter warheads, in any case, are a science-fiction nightmare. Dangerous to manufacture, dangerous to store, dangerous to carry, and dangerous to lob at thine foes. At any point there the container could fail and the thing detonates when you least desire it to.
SF writers are seduced by such weapons through the potential energy release ("BIGGER"! so says the director of Wormhole X-Treme!) and neglect to dally with any and all of its liabilities.
I'd much rather use a spatial-shock disruptor warhead. And ships powered by metallic hydrogen reactors. ;)
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So where are those silly droids with the plans? *worries*
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If there is a bright center to the universe, the droids are now trapped in a place farthest from...
...my guess is they're in New Jersey.
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