Wave at Saturn

Posted by on May 2, 2014 in Musings, Science, Slider | 0 comments

Wave at Saturn

“We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the Two, we should discover a great many Worlds which we perceive not; and that the Universe extends so in infinitum.”

Cyrano de Bergerac

 

 


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On Friday, July 19, 2013, from 2:27 p.m. to 2:42 p.m. PDT, I stood on a rooftop, joining millions of other Earthlings around the world in NASA’s “Wave at Saturn” event as the Cassini spacecraft, on a mission to photograph the Saturn ring system, turned back towards Earth to take our picture.

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