{"id":967,"date":"2013-03-05T02:31:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T02:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=967"},"modified":"2013-03-05T02:31:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T02:31:49","slug":"cassini-images-storms-and-spots-distant-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=967","title":{"rendered":"Cassini images storms and spots distant Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cassini<\/a> probe orbiting Saturn continues to return amazing images of the ringed planet. Here are some views of Saturnine storm systems: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/guest-blogs\/bill-dunford\/20130303-the-stormscapes-of-saturn.html\" target=\"_d\">The Stormscapes of Saturn &#8211; The Planetary Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These include the astonishing <a href=\"http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/photos\/imagedetails\/index.cfm?imageId=4736\" target=\"_d\">hexagon ring<\/a> storm at the north pole &#8211;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/photos\/imagedetails\/index.cfm?imageId=4736\" target=\"_d\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hexagon on Saturns north pole\" src=\"http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/images\/saturn\/images\/PIA14646-br500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>Cassini also just photographed Venus:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/newsreleases\/newsrelease20130304\/\" target=\"_d\">Cassini Spies Bright Venus From Saturn Orbit &#8211; Cassini <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/photos\/imagedetails\/index.cfm?imageId=4748\" target=\"_d\">\u00a0Morning Star &#8211; Cassini <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/photos\/imagedetails\/index.cfm?imageId=4748\" target=\"_d\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Venus from Saturn\" src=\"http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/images\/rings\/images\/PIA14936-br500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0&#8230; in this image from NASA&#8217;s Cassini spacecraft. Venus appears just off the edge of the planet, in the upper part of the image, directly above the white streak of Saturn&#8217;s G ring. Lower down, Saturn&#8217;s E ring makes an appearance, looking blue thanks to the scattering properties of the dust that comprises the ring. A bright spot near the E ring is a distant star.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cassini probe orbiting Saturn continues to return amazing images of the ringed planet. Here are some views of Saturnine storm systems: The Stormscapes of Saturn &#8211; The Planetary Society. These include the astonishing hexagon ring storm at the north pole &#8211; === Cassini also just photographed Venus: Cassini Spies Bright Venus From Saturn Orbit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=967\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cassini images storms and spots distant Venus<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-fB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5263,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5263","url_meta":{"origin":967,"position":0},"title":"Earth + Saturn in natural-color: new panoramic mosaic from NASA Cassini","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A press release from NASA: NASA Cassini Spacecraft Provides New View of Saturn and Earth NASA has released a natural-color image of Saturn from space, the first in which Saturn, its moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible. The new panoramic mosaic of the majestic Saturn\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"Saturn and it's moons","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/673xvariable_height\/public\/pia17172_full_annotatedcr.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5538,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5538","url_meta":{"origin":967,"position":1},"title":"Weird &#038; Wonderful Saturn","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"New imagery from the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn shows more of its beautiful and sometimes bizarre features:\u00a0NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Obtains Best Views of Saturn Hexagon - NASA This colorful view from NASA's Cassini mission is the highest-resolution view of the unique six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole known as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Gas giants Saturn, Jupiter, et al&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Gas giants Saturn, Jupiter, et al","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=87"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/pia17652color_new_0.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2024,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2024","url_meta":{"origin":967,"position":2},"title":"Cassini spacecraft gets close-up of huge Saturn storm","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"NASA JPL releases imagery from the Cassini\u00a0 probe showing a huge hurricane circulating around Saturn's north pole: NASA Probe Gets Close-Up Views of Large Hurricane on Saturn PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Space Science&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Space Science","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=13"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/71AFyQBLhyc\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14909,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14909","url_meta":{"origin":967,"position":3},"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 &quot;Gas giants Saturn, Jupiter, et al&quot;","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":13011,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13011","url_meta":{"origin":967,"position":4},"title":"Saturn images: Shadowing the rings &#038; The clouds in the infrared","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 9, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"A\u00a0couple of wonderful images\u00a0of Saturn released by NASA this week. (Find more great Saturn system images here): Long Divisions The shadow of Saturn on the rings, which stretched across all of the rings earlier in Cassini's mission (see PIA08362), now barely makes it past the Cassini division. The changing length\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Gas giants Saturn, Jupiter, et al&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Gas giants Saturn, Jupiter, et al","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=87"},"img":{"alt_text":"PIA20494-800x600[1]","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PIA20494-800x6001.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14919,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14919","url_meta":{"origin":967,"position":5},"title":"Video: Cassini mission to Saturn comes to an end","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Cassini spacecraft\u00a0made its final orbit of Saturn this morning: NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Ends Its Historic Exploration of Saturn\u00a0 https:\/\/youtu.be\/V5Ho30EMRm4 A thrilling epoch in the exploration of our solar system came to a close today, as NASA's\u00a0Cassini spacecraft\u00a0made a fateful plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn, ending its 13-year tour\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Europa, Titan, &amp; other deep space sites&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Europa, Titan, &amp; other deep space sites","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=98"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pia21889_enceladus_figa_color-a1-1024x1022.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}