On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net>wrote:
> Could somebody say a bit more about what we are looking at here. Are we > looking, as it appears, at a large proportion of the whole disc of Saturn, > or are we looking at a round photograph of what could be a very small part > of the whole disc of Saturn? It must be the latter, right? > So we now have a collection<https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=saturn+hexagon>of old and new images from Voyager and Cassini (I remember when somebody told me about Cassini/Huygens circa 2003, I expected great things, especially from Huygens. Turns out that while pictures from the slushy surface of Titan are neat, the orbiter yielded better long-term rewards) and some are better than others. [image: Inline image 1] -Arlo James Barnes
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