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- Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:56 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Cassini Approaches Saturn (2011 Mar 15)
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Re: APOD: Cassini Approaches Saturn (2011 Mar 15)
And why doesn't Saturn rotate? What looks like the spacecraft approaching Saturn is actually (probably) a single, static still image where the movement is from zooming and panning around in the picture. Originally I thought (and hoped) it was from chronologically arranged series of images from the s...
- Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:30 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Cassini Approaches Saturn (2011 Mar 15)
- Replies: 47
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Re: APOD: Cassini Approaches Saturn (2011 Mar 15)
Wow, fantastic. I certainly want to see this movie. But I wonder how much artistic freedom has been taken; did Cassini really pass through the rings, did the moons ever line up like in the clip? I suspect that while all the images may be real, there may some cutting and pasting, and perhaps some (or...