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http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/raw-images-details.cfm?feiImageID=32339 Another very cool image. I think the overexposed bit on the right is lit by sunlight, and the crescent on the left is Saturnshine? (Saturn's in the background). Notice the dark arcuate feature near the day/night...

I think a committee is going a bit too far in general. Maybe the most realistic addons can be approved by a knowledgable group of people, but if there's an ability to comment on individual addons on the ML site that should provide ample opportunity for people to give their opinions on how realistic ...

Looks more like a wrinkled sheet to me. Europa looks far less strange. Does look kinda like a crumpled plastic sheet doesn't it... but there's clearly something really wacky going on. lots of lateral faulting going on too - you'll notice that things don't seem to line up between the separate terrai...

Come on... I cited above directly from NASA, part of the original caption from their latest Cassini photo (EVERYONE reading here knows where the corresponding site is!): Since every child knows that 938 nanometers is near-IR, /invisible to the eye/, you clearly did not read or not understand that N...

I thought you know where to find the full caption. Right? You repeatedly assume your readers know things that they don't when you write posts here. Would it kill you to put a direct reference to the page you're referring to here? Please note that I am far from stupid. I am paid for usually not maki...

If it was the usual 938 nanometers narrow-band filter, I would have barely started a special thread on that issue ! Please, why don't you read things well before answering. This is a wide-band visual light filter just oposed to the near-IR narrowband filter that is usually applied. That actually is...

Ralph Lorenz and others did some extensive tweaking and enhancement of the Voyager images (taken thorugh visible filters) and it turned out that perhaps some surface features were actually visible in even those images. See here: http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jrich/vgertitan.html But that said, he REAL...

Because tourism is an industry just as profitable as the others. Plus, a new industry would arise - creating real estate out of nothing and selling it. You'll need to get the costs to get into orbit - let alone deep space - WAY down for tourism to be even an option. Plus, it's damn risky. On Earth ...

Just as a random tangential suggestion - can we have a separate ssc/stc section on the motherlode too? Just for ssc/stc files that don't have textures or anything (eg orbits for new asteroids, planets etc).

I don't think the Moon would be a good industrial base. I mean, think about it, what do we want ? We want resources, and juice. The Moon is not *that* resource rich. And "controlled" fusion is still not open for exploitation. Given how rare Helium-3 is on earth, and how essential it is for the more...

That's why the question I bring before you is : what would it take for humanity to build such a large scale industrial base on a planet or planetoid - in the foreseeable future ? An economic reason, and a strong will and rational purpose. For all of Bush's blathering about wanting to send humans to...

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/image-details.cfm?imageID=1373 http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/moons/images/IMG001373-br500.jpg Oh. My. God. 8O This terrain on Enceladus bears a very stunning resemblance to the ridges of Europa. It's jaw-dropping...! 8O

New radar images from Titan show, among other things, a giant crater . The crater kinda reminds me of the Mead impact basin on Venus... The "Cat Scratches" image is very interesting to me though. The morphology of those linear features looks vaguely like the so-called "grooved terrain" on Ganymede,...

SonyEricsonFanat has been banned . . . Sorry it took so long--I've been away for a couple days snowboarding in the Mt. Baker backcountry. --Chris I could kinda see that one coming, with a name like that. Would you be willing to give Admin priviledges to Mods (ie Selden and anyone else who wants the...

Interesting, but there's no way any spacecraft would be able to image the earth transiting the sun - the imaging CCDs would either oversaturate (if you're lucky) or burn out if they pointed at the sun.

I thought western music had long since been standardised to use the A to G scale... So "H minor" is really B minor? First I've ever heard of it...

To be honest I thought you meant G minor but missed the key on the keyboard and typed H instead...

t00fri wrote:I will release the whole thing very soon... Tonight I was out in a great concert (including concerto for violin by N. Paganini , H minor. It is rarely played due to its reputation of being the most difficult violin concerto! )

I'm not surprised, considering there's no such key as "H Minor"

Here's the equivalent graphic for the Enceladus flyby. http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/image-details.cfm?imageID=1361 We could get down to 70 m/pxl! :) Though to be honest, the lower resolutions are more useful, we're gonna need context here! Here's a pic of Titan taken on Feb 12th, we'...

Is that the default hubble model in the picture on the homepage? Looks very nifty

So THAT'S what you've been busy with....

Looks great! Nice work!