Spectacular photos of Saturn

Just a link, but better here than in the link forum.

SF Gate: Stunning new images of Saturn released

awesome... i was just going to start a thread about this. here's another link with the full-size pictures:



this photo is a mosaic of 165 images taken with the cassini space craft as the sun was directly behind saturn, lighting up the rings! it's amazing how many tiny details of the rings you can see, color differences and subtle outer rings that are usually really tough to detect!

Amazing pic! For those interested, this article explains that they found missing moons with the Cassini photos:

space.com: Saturn's Shadow Sheds Light on Rings

Wow. I actually found something I like better than my current screensaver-pic. Really something else! Thanks for the links!

Some more impressive images of Saturn:

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The image at top left was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope; all others are from the Cassini mission. The reddish one shows the north pole of Saturn, and the two lower ones show what appear to be seas on Saturn's moon Titan (Lake Superior on the right for comparison). See these and many more images in NASA's Planetary Photojournal.

Another impressive view of Saturn's rings in today's Astronomy Picture of the Day.

These pictures are truly stunning. Thank you very much for sharing them.

And from a different angle: