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Seven years in the making
Did Paul Simon say 'everything looks worse in black and white'? - If so, he either missed alot of film arts at NYU, or he is putting us on in his 1973 opus 'Kodachrome.' Black and white is what is real. People still finding that out. When the Nasa, Euro, Italio Cassini mission got to Saturn to orbit, with a billion billion pseudo colors at dispose, did they take pictures in color? No, brother droog. The fear of flaw was so great that they went with the least pixilated solution: B&W! The pictures were so good said Dr. Porco, that she thought they were simulations. Her mind was blown.
Of course, and yet, in true-color images taken in visible wavelengths, Moon Titan's photochemical smog, rich in organic material, gives the moon a smooth, featureless, orange glow.
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A very strange wonder - NYT, July 2, 2004
The first spacecraft to orbit Saturn arrived late Wednesday - NYT, July 2. 2004
poesy
Rings of Saturn
i.
We were approaching Saturn
In our craft of chrome
The encircling rings
Embellished and near
Said 'ramblers
You're gone but the decks are dormant,
You're gone and now you're here"
I'm Blinni
From the Italian Space Agency
On a mission from milan
5000 pounds of antennas and dream
and the soul of search
and all I do is push
that polaroid shutter
in the gap between
those rings
and gas
and fax
it back
to pasadena
alas
and
alack
cont..
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Orbiter Cassini finds mystery in Saturn's rippling rings - NewSci, Jul 2, 2003
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov
and the ultraviolet imaging spectrograph at http://lasp.colorado.edu/cassini.
Also see NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute image:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/61778main_pia06098-516.jpg
Full-Res TIFF: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/tiff/PIA06098.tif (311.1 kB)
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