#October2015

Space Swoon: Enceladus is a moon divided (by different hemispheres)

A tale of two

True story: I can’t spell Enceladus. I just cut and paste. Enceladus. Just cut and pasted that. Enceladus. And again! But I can appreciate this image of Enceladus (C+P), courtesy of Cassini.

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Cassini captures Saturn’s Warped D (Ring)

Spirals in the D!

Terrible title is terrible.

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Cassini catches Saturn’s moon, Dione, looking gorgeous

Space Porn: Saturn totally impaling one its moons on its rings.

Moon!

It’s all perspective, baby! That’s what I shout at the men and women recoiling from my advances at the local tavern. You could say I’m missing thirty teeth! Or you could say I have six! Perspective! Just like you should say that this picture is one of Saturn impaling its moon, Tethys. Or you could say it’s just a trick of the lens! That’s not the same? C’MON FUCK I HAVE SIX TEETH CUT ME SOME SLACK.

Full image and details after the jump.

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Check out Uranus contrasted against the rings of Saturn

Uranus!

Spa-spa-spa-space! It’s not without its humbling glimpses into the perspective of It All. Here’s a pretty sexy image snagged by Cassini that features Uranus against the rings of Saturn.

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CASSINI crosses Saturn’s Ring Plane. MAGIC TRICK occurs.

a magic trick bruh

How about dis sheeeeeet? Cassini is rocking out, all gobbling up pictures of Saturn and shit when WHOOSH the goddamn rings disappear. Now you’re thinking what I’m thinking. The rings are techno-organic nano-bots that are operating as a hive mind. They’ve been activated, and now are en route to Earth. Close. We’re close. You see — actually we’re not close. It’s a matter of perspective.

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This look at SATURN by CASSINI is top-down space porn.

Saturn.

Fucking Cassini! Good guy Cassini! Floating through space and taking staggeringly beautiful pictures of Saturn. This latest mosaic is fucking phenomenal.

Deets and the full image after the jump.

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CASSINI captures EARTH and THE MOON from Saturn. Perspective++

Woah.

Behold the wonder of perspective! Yeah, it’s a grainy piece of shit picture. Still though! What it signifies is pretty outrageous. Thurr be in that picture the Blue Marble and the Moon. As seen from Cassini up in Saturn’s hood.

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Saturn’s Enceladus is MOONING us beautifully. Get it? (I hate myself.)

Enceladus.

Hey, it’s a gorgeous shot of Saturn’s sixth largest moon! Wee!

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Saturn’s 1,250 MILE-WIDE HURRICANE looks like maelstrom of death.

Death.

Cassini has captured one of a few rogue portals into Diablo’s Lair, this one being on Saturn. Look at that shit! A blood-churning blood-filled hurricane of doom! Oh, don’t give me anything about spectral filters. Or extrapolations. That is how it truly looks. I can feel it.

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