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Saturn and Three Moons | NASA Cassini
Processed using calibrated red, green, and blue filtered images of Saturn taken by the Cassini spacecraft on September 2, 2015. Visible moons are, from the left, Dione, Rhea, and Epimetheus.
The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http://www.nasa.gov/cassini
The Cassini-Huygens mission was 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, California, managed the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center was based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
Image Date: September 2, 2015
Release Date: August 21, 2018
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Processed using calibrated red, green, and blue filtered images of Saturn taken by the Cassini spacecraft on September 2, 2015. Visible moons are, from the left, Dione, Rhea, and Epimetheus.
The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http://www.nasa.gov/cassini
The Cassini-Huygens mission was 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, California, managed the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center was based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
Image Date: September 2, 2015
Release Date: August 21, 2018
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Titan at Saturn: Close-up | NASA Cassini
Processed using calibrated red, green, and blue filtered images of Saturn's moon Titan taken by the Cassini spacecraft on December 17, 2015.
Titan is the largest moon of Saturn. It is the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere, and the only object in space, other than Earth, where clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found.
The atmosphere of Titan is largely nitrogen; minor components lead to the formation of methane and ethane clouds and nitrogen-rich organic smog. The climate—including wind and rain—creates surface features similar to those of Earth, such as dunes, rivers, lakes, seas (probably of liquid methane and ethane), and deltas, and is dominated by seasonal weather patterns as on Earth. With its liquids (both surface and subsurface) and robust nitrogen atmosphere, Titan's methane cycle is analogous to Earth's water cycle, at the much lower temperature of about 94 K (−179.2 °C; −290.5 °F).
Titan is the sixth gravitationally rounded moon from Saturn. Frequently described as a planet-like moon, Titan is 50% larger than Earth's Moon, and it is 80% more massive. It is the second-largest moon in the Solar System, after Jupiter's moon Ganymede, and is larger than the smallest planet, Mercury, but only 40% as massive. (Source: Wikipedia)
The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http://www.nasa.gov/cassini
The Cassini-Huygens mission was 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, California, managed the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center was based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
Image Date: December 17, 2015
Release Date: August 21, 2018
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Processed using calibrated red, green, and blue filtered images of Saturn's moon Titan taken by the Cassini spacecraft on December 17, 2015.
Titan is the largest moon of Saturn. It is the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere, and the only object in space, other than Earth, where clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found.
The atmosphere of Titan is largely nitrogen; minor components lead to the formation of methane and ethane clouds and nitrogen-rich organic smog. The climate—including wind and rain—creates surface features similar to those of Earth, such as dunes, rivers, lakes, seas (probably of liquid methane and ethane), and deltas, and is dominated by seasonal weather patterns as on Earth. With its liquids (both surface and subsurface) and robust nitrogen atmosphere, Titan's methane cycle is analogous to Earth's water cycle, at the much lower temperature of about 94 K (−179.2 °C; −290.5 °F).
Titan is the sixth gravitationally rounded moon from Saturn. Frequently described as a planet-like moon, Titan is 50% larger than Earth's Moon, and it is 80% more massive. It is the second-largest moon in the Solar System, after Jupiter's moon Ganymede, and is larger than the smallest planet, Mercury, but only 40% as massive. (Source: Wikipedia)
The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http://www.nasa.gov/cassini
The Cassini-Huygens mission was 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, California, managed the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center was based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
Image Date: December 17, 2015
Release Date: August 21, 2018
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Titan and Tethys at Saturn | NASA Cassini
Saturn’s moon Tethys disappears behind Titan as observed by the Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 26, 2009. Tethys is about 660 miles (1,070 kilometers) across. At about 3,200 miles (5,100 kilometers) wide, Titan is larger than the planet Mercury, and was much closer to Cassini than Tethys at the time of this image. Titan is planet-like in another way: it’s wrapped in a thick atmosphere, which can be clearly seen here where it overlaps icy Tethys in the distance beyond.
Cassini captured this natural-color image at a distance of approximately 620,000 miles (1 million kilometers) from Titan.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and https://www.nasa.gov/cassini. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org.
The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017.
The Cassini-Huygens mission was 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, California, managed the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center was based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Image Date: November 26, 2009
Release Date: August 20, 2018
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Saturn’s moon Tethys disappears behind Titan as observed by the Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 26, 2009. Tethys is about 660 miles (1,070 kilometers) across. At about 3,200 miles (5,100 kilometers) wide, Titan is larger than the planet Mercury, and was much closer to Cassini than Tethys at the time of this image. Titan is planet-like in another way: it’s wrapped in a thick atmosphere, which can be clearly seen here where it overlaps icy Tethys in the distance beyond.
Cassini captured this natural-color image at a distance of approximately 620,000 miles (1 million kilometers) from Titan.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and https://www.nasa.gov/cassini. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org.
The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017.
The Cassini-Huygens mission was 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, California, managed the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center was based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Image Date: November 26, 2009
Release Date: August 20, 2018
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Seven Dusty Sisters
Is this really the famous Pleaides star cluster? Known for its iconic blue stars, the Pleaides is shown here in infrared light where the surrounding dust outshines the stars. Here three infrared colors have been mapped into visual colors (R=24, G=12, B=4.6 microns). The base images were taken by NASA's orbiting Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft. Cataloged as M45 and nicknamed the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades star cluster is by chance situated in a passing dust cloud. The light and winds from the massive Pleiades stars preferentially repels smaller dust particles, causing the dust to become stratified into filaments, as seen. The featured image spans about 20 light years at the distance of the Pleiades, which lies about 450 light years distant toward the constellation of the Bull (Taurus).
Image Credit: WISE, IRSA, NASA;
Processing & Copyright: Francesco Antonucci
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Is this really the famous Pleaides star cluster? Known for its iconic blue stars, the Pleaides is shown here in infrared light where the surrounding dust outshines the stars. Here three infrared colors have been mapped into visual colors (R=24, G=12, B=4.6 microns). The base images were taken by NASA's orbiting Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft. Cataloged as M45 and nicknamed the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades star cluster is by chance situated in a passing dust cloud. The light and winds from the massive Pleiades stars preferentially repels smaller dust particles, causing the dust to become stratified into filaments, as seen. The featured image spans about 20 light years at the distance of the Pleiades, which lies about 450 light years distant toward the constellation of the Bull (Taurus).
Image Credit: WISE, IRSA, NASA;
Processing & Copyright: Francesco Antonucci
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Are #Sundials, to Tell #Time, Really Obsolete?
Today, w/ #computers, #smartphones, & #atomic #clocks, are sundials, for telling time, really obsolete? For a dedicated group of amateur #scientists, members of the #NorthAmericanSundialSociety #NASS, the answer to this question is an emphatic no! In fact, they are using computers and high #technology to #design and create even better sundials!
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Today, w/ #computers, #smartphones, & #atomic #clocks, are sundials, for telling time, really obsolete? For a dedicated group of amateur #scientists, members of the #NorthAmericanSundialSociety #NASS, the answer to this question is an emphatic no! In fact, they are using computers and high #technology to #design and create even better sundials!
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NASA/JPL, GO!
We dare mighty things.
From Space Age rockets to 21st-century robot explorers on Mars, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has blazed the trail through our Solar System and beyond for over 80 years (1936-2018).
Today NASA/JPL continues its world-leading innovation with programs in planetary exploration, Earth science, space-based astronomy and technology development, while applying its capabilities to technical and scientific problems of national significance.
Learn more about our lab: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Duration: 1 minute, 23 seconds
Release Date: August 24, 2018
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We dare mighty things.
From Space Age rockets to 21st-century robot explorers on Mars, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has blazed the trail through our Solar System and beyond for over 80 years (1936-2018).
Today NASA/JPL continues its world-leading innovation with programs in planetary exploration, Earth science, space-based astronomy and technology development, while applying its capabilities to technical and scientific problems of national significance.
Learn more about our lab: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Duration: 1 minute, 23 seconds
Release Date: August 24, 2018
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#NASA #JPL #Space #Astronomy #Science #Technology #Planets #Mars #Jupiter #Europa #SolarSystem #Exploration #Spacecraft #Robotics #Pasadena #California #UnitedStates #STEM #Education #HD #Video
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#JPL: 15 of #Spitzer's Greatest #Discoveries from 15 #Years in #Space
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