| AudiInProgress |
| That's awesome! |
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| rocklee_86 |
that is so cool, please post updates if you find any!
And what is that bright thing at the top of the pic? |
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| Perilous_Enterprises |
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Originally posted by rocklee_86
that is so cool, please post updates if you find any!
And what is that bright thing at the top of the pic?
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(The Images were) taken on November 20, 2007 and received on Earth November 21, 2007. The camera was pointing toward SATURN-E RING at approximately 1,741,354 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters. This image has not been validated or calibrated. A validated/calibrated image will be archived with the NASA Planetary Data System in 2008.
So info should be available soon. As for the light on top of the pic, I can't find out anything! Maybe its the MOTHERSHIP!! hehe
IF I can find more info, I'll certainly pass it along. |
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| Tech2 |
Face on mars anyone?
Neat? Absolutely, alien spaceship venting plasma? Well, prolly not. But UFOs are really cool, spaceships or crashing ring particles or any other neat space thing I've never heard of before. |
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| Invalid Zero |
| Save me L. Ron!!!! |
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| STiPWR |
| Some sort of explosion or release of a gas possibly... Looks like a star or something to me. |
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| THUD |
I think it's a matter of the cameras perspective, the object was coming at the camera or sorta and as the craft and the object moved we see anouther angle.
A gas discharge and vapor trail are clear which suggest to me it is a chunk of gasous ice which is everywere around saturan, sulfur is very abondent around that to so some solid H ,S bit of Fe and He, Na and P, end up with H2S gas discharge from the pockets inside givein it some thrust. :thumbup:
I don't really think it's that mothershit I am sure that crashed into Iapetus long ago. |
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| Stainless |
| I for one welcome our new lens-flare overlords! |
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| Perilous_Enterprises |
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Originally posted by Stainless
I for one welcome our new lens-flare overlords!
Thats kool, ALL HAIL THE LENS-FLARE OVERLORDS!!
I'd like to think it's some kind of space craft, but I'll definetly wait for NASA's official statement, which should be out sometime this month. No matter what, you have to admit it is a curious sighting.
The discharge is far too uniform to be a simple relase of gasses into space. And given the direction in relation to the camera, it does seem to be moving away from veiw. Not to mention, these pictures were taken some 2million km away from saturn, so it would be safe to assume that they're not caused by debris from the rings.
It could be an orbiting mass of something like a small meteor, but that doesn't explain why it did it's thing once Cassini started snapping pictures of it.
That being said, I have found another picture cassini had taken of the moon Enceladus which is eclipsed and we can see similar trails of vapor radiating upwards in a similar fassion... (moreso, down and to the right) This phenomena is known as Sheer Heating, same thing that happens to comets when they near the sun.
Same moon, different angle and filter...
As you can see, there certainly is some kind of vapor ejecting, but it does not maintain the same uniformity as the pictures in question. So at least in my mind, Sheer Heating is not the source of this vapor.
In the pictures of Enceladus the vapor rises every which way, but in the B&W's of the strange phenomena the plumes are very directional and uniform. This is inconsistant with all other natural phenomena witness thus far by Cassini.
Once again, offical statement from JPL:
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These images were taken on November 21, 2007 and received on Earth November 22, 2007. The camera was pointing toward SATURN-ERING at approximately 1,940,332 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters. This image has not been validated or calibrated. A validated/calibrated image will be archived with the NASA Planetary Data System in 2008.
1.9 million km away from saturn.... So even though Enceladus orbits within the e-ring, from almost 2million km away, it would not appear to be so large in the 1st picture.
Oh, and for the record I've read from some theorists that the lens flare on top of the image is from the sun.
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Originally posted by THUD
A gas discharge and vapor trail are clear which suggest to me it is a chunk of gasous ice which is everywere around saturan,
It's Saturn, and I thought Ice was a solid....??? :p |
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| Perilous_Enterprises |
OOOOHHH!! I found another animation of the photo's taken, this one show's the objects full trajectory....
Keep in mind, this animation was pieced together with the released images... Remember, the sun is pretty much infront and above Cassini, which means the object would be in between Cassini and the sun. |
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| JeepGirl |
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Originally posted by Perilous_Enterprises
OOOOHHH!! I found another animation of the photo's taken, this one show's the objects full trajectory....
Keep in mind, this animation was pieced together with the released images... Remember, the sun is pretty much infront and above Cassini, which means the object would be in between Cassini and the sun.
Course correction because they found no intelligent life in our system?
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| oldraven |
I love that a bunch of car fanatics on an Edmonton Tuner board think they can explain what NASA can't. :lol:
"It's not Rocket Appliances, Julian." |
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| AudiInProgress |
I just find it funny how the energy burst happens JUST as the image moves out-of-frame...
Makes me very skeptical. |
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| JeepGirl |
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Originally posted by oldraven
"It's not Rocket Appliances, Julian."
:lol: :lol: :lol: :thumbup: |
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| Graphicdude |
| That is cool. It could be nothing but it wouldn't surprise me if it was a space ship or something. It would be nice if all this speculation about intelligent life and what not was finally brought out into the public and the truths be told whether there is life out there or not. |
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