Earth & Moon Photographed from Saturn

[buzyg]

Some things are just amazing. To think, as we sit here chatting, there is a man made object 1.4 billion km away taking photographs, at our behest. Just blows me away to think about it if I'm honest. 8)

http://earthsky.org/space/earth-and-moon-between-saturns-rings-april-2017

 

[Chris_D]

Kewl
Ive got a static caravan on Andromeda. The site fees are fkn extortionate tho :x

 

[buzyg]

Kewl
Ive got a static caravan on Andromeda. The site fees are fkn extortionate tho :x

:lol: Give us a wave next time you're there. I'll point my wee telescope that way and see if I can spot you. :wink:

By the way. The site fee's in Cornwall are Astronomical. :exitright:

 

[Machine monkey]

I work in a physics department at a university. This sh1t blows my mind! Love love love it the human race has many many flaws but it's also capable of amazing things.

 

[Chris_D]

I work in a physics department at a university. This sh1t blows my mind! Love love love it the human race has many many flaws but it's also capable of amazing things.

It all falls into place now mat - ur using the physics dept as a testbed for your rear-mounted turbo shennanigans and have the students performing cfd and matlab calculations. Clever!

 

[Marlon]

Stunning, Cassini launched 20 years ago and almost of fuel - not bad mpg I'd say

 

[Smartbear]

That's what I call hyper miling, burn & coast
Rob

 

[metal licker]

Bloody hell that pic puts the annoyance of a general election in to perspective

 

[dr_john]

Fantastic.

As an engineer I appreciate the technology involved but to see results like this is truly mind blowing.

As Marlon says, great mpg!

 

[SpiketheBike]

Pretty humbling really innit? 8)

 

[sharpyboy]

Brilliant, great shot. My favourite is this one from the Moon if you believe that NASA went there and not filmed it in Hollywood backlot

 

[buzyg]

Brilliant, great shot. My favourite is this one from the Moon if you believe that NASA went there and not filmed it in Hollywood backlot

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Give it a few generations and our great grand kids might be able to buy a drone, for a few days wages, that they can send up to take that shot. The good news it only takes a signal 1.3s each way. 8)

1.4 billion km though. Even light takes 1.3 hours each way. With our current understanding of what is possible, that's always going to be a fekin long way. Lets just hope we have bits of the science wrong right now. :wink: