Cassini has taken a spectacular full color image of Saturn’s hexagon-shaped storm that surrounds its north pole.
Cassini has taken a spectacular full color image of Saturn’s hexagon-shaped storm that surrounds its north pole.
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Cassini has taken a spectacular full color image of Saturn’s hexagon-shaped storm that surrounds its north pole.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Ahhh…beautiful, mysterious Saturn, with its magnificent ring system & the single most mysterious feature seen on any of the planets, the bizarre Hexagon-shaped storm at its North pole. Haven’t yet read a good explanation of how that came into existence & how it’s able to persist. My favorite planet – by far…
That is a spectacular image. It also gives a good indication of just how big Saturn is. The entire Earth – Moon system would fit inside that image.
Where else would you stick the allen wrench to wind it up?
10 points.
Now that’s funny ! !
Yes – mind-boggling ! ! Very surprised that the “true color” is actually light blue – those of us with an interest in Astronomy are somewhat used to seeing color-enhanced images to show contrast (or sometimes relative temps) of galaxies, nebulas, etc., but it’s pretty cool that this odd feature really looks like this…