Is This Cool Or What?? (APOD 2008 Oct 20)
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Is This Cool Or What?? (APOD 2008 Oct 20)
Looking at the recent Cassini pic from Saturn, I know it has been said a million times, but I still can't get over that human beings built a machine and sent it millions of miles away and it's orbiting the coolest planet in our Solar System. I have a hard time, as I imagine most of us do, trying to contemplate the distance to that planet. It is sooooo far away from here.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081020.html
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081020.html
Contemplating infinity......still contemplating.....
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Welcome to APOD Invisidrone! Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to contemplate infinity for a long time? I do sometimes but the annoying honking at the traffic light distracts me.
Other than Earth, Saturn is the aesthetically coolest planet system IMO. I mean those rings and now the geometric polar storms and the possibly seasonal colors.
Ask a kid to draw a picture of a planet you’re typically going to get a circle with a ring around it. Kids know what’s cool!
Other than Earth, Saturn is the aesthetically coolest planet system IMO. I mean those rings and now the geometric polar storms and the possibly seasonal colors.
Ask a kid to draw a picture of a planet you’re typically going to get a circle with a ring around it. Kids know what’s cool!
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Pluto will always be a planet in my book. So is Ceres; Sedna; etc. 8)bystander wrote:apodman wrote:I think Pluto is the coolest ... uh, never mind.Actually, it would be Neptune. Pluto is no longer a planet.jesusfreak16 wrote:In terms of temperature it would be coolest
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Hmmm...do you two know each other?orin stepanek wrote:Pluto will always be a planet in my book. So is Ceres; Sedna; etc. 8)bystander wrote:Actually, it would be Neptune. Pluto is no longer a planet.
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