{"id":10565,"date":"2015-05-11T14:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10565"},"modified":"2015-05-11T14:00:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T18:00:48","slug":"cassini-returns-another-marvelous-view-of-saturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10565","title":{"rendered":"Cassini returns another marvelous view of Saturn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check out this beautiful view of Saturn as seen by the Cassini<\/a> probe:<\/p>\n

\u00a0Serene Saturn<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"pia18314-1041[1]\"<\/a>Click for larger image<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>
\nCredit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Space Science Institute<\/em><\/p>\n

From a distance Saturn seems to exude an aura of serenity and peace.<\/p>\n

In spite of this appearance, Saturn is an active and dynamic world.\u00a0 Its atmosphere is a fast-moving and turbulent place with wind speeds in excess of 1,100 miles per hour (1,800 km per hour) in places. The lack of a solid surface to create drag means that there are fewer features to slow down the wind than on a planet like Earth.<\/p>\n

Mimas, to the upper-right of Saturn, has been brightened by a factor of 2 for visibility.<\/p>\n

In this view, Cassini was at a subspacecraft latitude of 19 degrees North. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Feb. 4, 2015 using a spectral filter centered at 752 nanometers, in the near-infrared portion of the spectrum.<\/p>\n

The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 1.6 million miles (2.5 million kilometers) from Saturn. Image scale is 96 miles (150 kilometers) per pixel.<\/p>\n

The Cassini mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.<\/p>\n

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/cassini<\/a> and http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov<\/a>. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http:\/\/ciclops.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Check out this beautiful view of Saturn as seen by the Cassini probe: \u00a0Serene Saturn Click for larger image.\u00a0 Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Space Science Institute From a distance Saturn seems to exude an aura of serenity and peace. In spite of this appearance, Saturn is an active and dynamic world.\u00a0 Its atmosphere is a fast-moving and turbulent … Continue reading Cassini returns another marvelous view of Saturn<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,36,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-et-al","category-multiple-media","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2Kp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14909,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14909","url_meta":{"origin":10565,"position":0},"title":"Videos: Cassini nears its final orbit around Saturn","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"On Friday, the Cassini probe will end its 13 year mission at the ringed planet when its final orbit takes the spacecraft into Saturn's atmosphere:\u00a0Cassini Spacecraft Makes Its Final Approach to Saturn | NASA NASA's\u00a0Cassini\u00a0spacecraft is on final approach to Saturn, following confirmation by mission navigators that it is on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Gas giants Saturn, Jupiter, et al"","block_context":{"text":"Gas giants Saturn, Jupiter, et al","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=87"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/maize_51-1024x576.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13274,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13274","url_meta":{"origin":10565,"position":1},"title":"Videos: Four Days at Saturn + Public lecture: Cassini’s Epic Journey at Saturn","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This time lapse video made by the \u00a0Cassini spacecraft\u00a0shows four rotations of Saturn: NASA's Cassini spacecraft stared at Saturn for nearly 44 hours in April 2016 to obtain this movie showing four Saturn days. 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