Saturn Movie + Titan and Hyperion

This movie of Saturn's southern hemisphere taken by the Cassini spacecraft cameras shows a banded appearance due to winds, as well as dark cyclonic ovals.
The movie is comprised of 45 frames captured between February 6 and March 30, 2004, as Cassini coasted toward Saturn. The images were projected onto a rectangular longitude system to make a cylindrical map, with one map for each rotation of the planet that was captured by the cameras. These cylindrical maps (shown here also in movie form) were then projected back onto a globe-shaped Saturn.
This view of Saturn is similar to those seen in movies made from Cassini's encounter with Jupiter, except that in this case only the dark ovals are visible, not the background jets. The jets are there, but their features are much more muted. It is not yet clear whether all the ovals visible here are cyclonic, meaning that their winds flow in a counter-clockwise direction. However, the ovals resemble the cyclonic ovals Cassini spied on Jupiter. A few of the ovals seem to change their apparent direction of travel, from westward to eastward, as they change their latitude. This fascinating behavior was also noted by Cassini imaging scientists with ovals on Jupiter. Two mergers of ovals are captured in this sequence, one of which was reported previously.

CREDIT: NASA

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[MariaGarcia281]

My newest upload:

Meteors Target Earth

-Our moon and Earth get struck by space objects at approximately the same rate - then why is it that our surface doesn't appear with craters as prominently as the moon?

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[MariaGarcia281]

NASA NEWS RELEASE

Two of the Milky Way's Spiral Arms Go Missing

"...new images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are shedding light on the true structure of the Milky Way, revealing that it has just two major arms of stars instead of the four it was previously thought to possess."

"Our own sun might have once resided in a different arm. Since it was formed more than 4 billion years ago, it has traveled around the galaxy 16 times."

Find out more at NASA website

[arvhee44]

its realy cool how u study planets and space,,,wierd at the same time its like studying the very small particles we see in everywhere

[MariaGarcia281]

yep, Earth is made up of what one can find out in the vastness of the universe... sort of like saying all the celestial bodies in the universe share a common ancestor

[J0ke485]

i want to go to saturn ftw >.> i mean not inside. i wanna be on a space ship looking at it. it must be soooo awesome :O

[MariaGarcia281]

I want the whole solar system tour package and nothing less :-)

The striking images we get from NASA are astounding... but we all know things look a whole lot different and better in person (3D)

[KarbineKyle]

Nice Video! Space exploration is AWESOME! NASA and/or ESA really needs to send a probe to the 2 ice giants Uranus & Neptune, and its moons, especially Neptune's moon Triton, because it's geologically active (cryovolcanism). It's the only moon (7th largest) of Neptune that has hydrostatic equilibrium (massive enough to pull itself spherical) with a retrograde orbit. It may even had a past connection with Pluto (New Horizons is headed for Pluto). It's been 20+ years since Voyager 2 was at Neptune!

[DanielJoseDiego]

Space is so amazing and mind boggling.

[imagesk8r6969]

love it!!! awesome *_*

[arvhee44]

correct wow ur smart...im like huh??hehe make sense though

[J0ke485]

yup :-D