Carolyn Porco's favourite Cassini photos

[barkpeeler2000]

around 1:36 i thought she was going to say "you can't see sh*t" ha ha...

[barkpeeler2000]

omg wow titan looks great

[BudCharles999]

3 people crashed into Saturn's rings.

[jbiohjdfio398476y3]

will it blend?

[bradwhitcombe]

i can not see the earth in the first image only in the second one!

[scringer12]

Fantastic video.

[jonismack1]

lol! WTF?!

[LEMMlNGSmaster]

Hey, she didn't mention the F ring. Last year I sent Carolyn Porco an image of Neptune with large rings like Saturn's as a memory of Triton moving in too close and in the future breaks apart like mentioned on an episode. Wow, Earth was in the image and almost a billion miles away? And we have trouble seeing Uranus in the sky. Mars landers would easily see the moon and the Earth apart; the moon wouldn't appear smaller. A satellite recorded Earth eclipsing the sun. have you seen the Saturn nebula?

[fishsoftware]

@LEMMlNGSmaster Hey your sentences don't entirely make sense.

[LEMMlNGSmaster]

The ones I know other than Carolyn Porco are Heidi Hammel, Ellen Stofan, and Debra Fischer. Carolyn came to the realization that dark areas in the rings that look like shadows orbit the planet without changing shape just by the orbit.

[johnsmdm]

you would freeze to death sirs..from what I gather, its hundreds of degrees below zero..

[ricenbeans4]

we can send a space ship that can travel billions of miles into space and not run out of fuel, but we cand invent a car that doesnt run on gasoline....... wow

[Gudenfast]

Deep space probes are "powered" by gravitational slingshot, don't ya know.

Come on, I mean it's not rocket science . . .

[sgbr101]

Don't get so excited those fluid erosions are not water if thats what you think it is liquid methane or liquid ammonia which is still a liquid even under those intense cold conditons.

[proteinplus]

No radical nonduality around here.....spoof....

[Byronthesaturnling]

I got that saturn pic as my background on myspace. :)

[wokmonster]

Killer I love space stuff.

[cherrysherry333]

Thanks Dear Very Cool Space Stuff!...;)

[stardustthewarrior]

cool photos!

[phaich]

@samgod & Jekelstheory

Yees!! In Lindau at the Lake of Constance there is every year a meeting Nobel Prize Winners - almost NOTHING in the press but soccer euro championship for bawling idiots - thaths it! The same with Goodalls getting friends with chimapnzees in the wilderness - that was for me like the discovery of America - little echo in the media. - We are living in the middle age...

[sportsbettor101]

Thank you.That was great

[JohnDeBunkTest]

I think it moves people too. It moves me.

[znzprod]

x-celent

[Richona]

I thought they were fake at first, but then i saw Earth...

[bebop54]

incredible foto's ! ...wow !

[InReasonWeTrust]

awesome

[UncleKennybobs]

Very nice.

[hfhf2008]

Thank you NewScientist for posting this. Truly amazing images!

[unbeliever1000]

oh my, this is magnificent!

[DrakeMagnum]

outstanding

some of these photos really do make me a bit emotional sometimes

[Jekelstheory]

dude,

TITAN looks amazing!

like a lil earth?

we should land there

[baarni]

We have!! sort of, The Huygens probe hitched a ride on the Cassini space craft and landed on Titan on 14th Janruary 2005. There seems to be liquid seas and lakes on the surface.

[Jekelstheory]

Why haven't we made big new about this then?

Well like HUGE news?

Possible water, possible life.

Habitable??

still looks amazing though.

[samgod]

Make big news of this and miss celebrity weddings gossip? Unfortunately (or fortunately?), most people are just way too dumb to care.

[Salmo77]

To all the republican haters saying we should not pay taxes to discover such BEAUTY in the universe!!!

[kribaby76]

That was awsome to think if life out there looks our way we are a shining star in their night sky how amazing is that. If Titan has clouds and rain does that make it class M and might we in the future be able to live there?

[DamienZshadow]

Rain...liquid methane, not water.

[ilm444]

why the fuck that Youtube media player stops downloading the videos? This happens to me so many times.

[UncleKennybobs]

Poor internet connection.

[gggreggg]

truly awesome stuff!!!!!

[itchydagger2001]

cool

[eddykayo]

TITAN. When she said, "you can't see shadows", I thought she was about to say, "you can't see shit!"

[ndjarnag]

so cool, if I could just comprehend it all...

[ThompsonSeedless]

It's funny that the intro for Star Trek TNG anticipated that backlit shot, just as Voltaire anticipated the big bang hypothesis

[doughboy1337]

Wow

[hartnell114]

whyd ya shout probe

[creegirl9]

wow.. that was excellent

[Topecs]

*goes to find the eclipse picture for his PC's desktop*

[Bfly99]

oh wow, is that saturn-eclipsing-the-sun picture real? looks so photoshoped.

[89rafa]

sounds like armagedon is coming.

[tardesnegras]

I wish we would explore the deep sea with as much vigor as we do in space exploration

[gromann]

problem ... nobody is interested enough to fund it...

[tardesnegras]

I'll admit I don't know about the politics of sea or space travel and exploration, I think it is safe to assume there is enoughinterest in both realms, you are probably right abou the funding unfortunatley but there is still so much to be seen and taken from the sea, what if we find sunk alien flying suacers and reverse engineer it and used that technology to explore space....ok I went off topic but still.

[gromann]

Well it boils down to this... everyone wants to do alot for space exploration, no one wants to be the one to pay for it.

[UnderseaCaveman]

It's much more profitable to send rockets into neighboring continents than neighboring planets....

[DrHMFIC]

Exactly where's the profit in that? Rocket profits go to rocket makers. More rockets to neighboring planets would mean more profits just the same.

Meanwhile, not too sure who is currently making profits, or has, by sending rockets into neighboring continents.

Perhaps there are other factors involved in threats or causes of war than merely the presence of one type of weapons or another. The world operates on reality rather than the unique epiphany that war isn't nice.

Animals fight. Grow up.

[enderwigginsx]

that was excellent.

[NicNasty1981]

this is easily thae best video ie seen from new scientist, i love space :)

[ho2cultcha]

wow! i was moved most by saturn's g-string! hubba! hubba!

[fabian914]

lmao... good fight.

[ruthlessx]

giddey giddey

[teemuruskeepaa]

That is an ok featuring.

[whitephillyboy13]

awesome. there are so many possibilities in the universe and pictures are ways to record the beauty and power in the universe

[LittleTruckingBozo]

thats cool

[WoWaddict3d]

Whoa. That was cool.

[fluffhead059]

Truly awesome. The final picture is my laptop background right now :)

[canadianeh24]

that last pic is pretty cool where you see the earth

[ashtooon]

thats amazing

[Skelic]

Great pics and I agree - The last picture was the best picture!

[oacpowers]

interesting...