Friday, April 28, 2017

Lord of the Rings


The Cassini spacecraft dove through the rings of Saturn yesterday, and sent back its first pictures today. Here you are. These are raw images, and have not been prettified like the Juno pictures. That makes the cyclopean eye of the hurricane even more petrifying!









The other  pictures appear to be a close up of the hurricane, and perhaps a Saturnian cloud formation. Many more pictures are expected before Cassini plunges to its fiery death on 15 th  September. It is hoped that its fiery incineration will keep it from contaminating the Saturnian environment with earthly debris, and even worse, earthly bacteria. We plan to update this post  with  more Saturnian pictures, but hopefully, with no earthly bugs in sight.

This blog post is by Neelima Gupte and Sumathi Rao.

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