{"id":45,"date":"2011-12-12T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lousodrome.net\/blog\/light\/?p=45"},"modified":"2012-10-23T05:23:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T05:23:33","slug":"images-from-cassini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lousodrome.net\/blog\/light\/2011\/12\/12\/images-from-cassini\/","title":{"rendered":"Images from Cassini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a child, astronomy was a big thing to me, and while I gave up on the idea of ever becoming an astronomer since then, I am still in love with that field. At the time, images would come from books, a scarce resource to a kiddie. But nowadays, high quality pictures are just a click away, on websites such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/\">Astronomy Picture of the Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the recent missions that most impresses me is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/cassini\/main\/\">Cassini<\/a> one. The images that spacecraft has provided over the last years on its journey to Saturn and its satellites are magnificent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/cabbas\">Chris Abbas<\/a> made a video out of some of them, resulting in this <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110613.html\">mesmerizing two minutes film<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/24410924?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple of photos taken by the Cassini spacecraft:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap111012.html\">Saturn: Shadows of a Seasonal Sundial<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap100215.html\">Cassini Spacecraft Crosses Saturn&#8217;s Ring Plane<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap100531.html\"> Moons and Rings Before Saturn<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110512.html\"> Enceladus Looms<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110308.html\"> Titan, Rings, and Saturn from Cassini<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap101012.html\"> Saturn: Light, Dark, and Strange<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap100802.html\"> Prometheus Creating Saturn Ring Streamers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110904.html\"> In the Shadow of Saturn <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also don&#8217;t miss the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2010\/05\/checking_in_on_saturn.html\"> compilation published on the The Big Picture<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a child, astronomy was a big thing to me, and while I gave up on the idea of ever becoming an astronomer since then, I am still in love with that field. 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