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Saturn at equinox
Checking in with NASA's Cassini spacecraft, our current emissary to Saturn, some 1.5 billion kilometers (932 million miles) distant from Earth, we find it recently gathering images of the Saturnian system at equinox. During the equinox, the sunlight casts long shadows across Saturn's rings, highlighting previously known phenomena and revealing a few never-before seen images. Cassini continues to orbit Saturn, part of its extended Equinox Mission, funded through through September 2010. A proposal for a further extension is under consideration, one that would keep Cassini in orbit until 2017, ending with a spectacular series of orbits inside the rings followed by a suicide plunge into Saturn on Sept. 15, 2017. (previously: 1, 2, 3). (23 photos total)
From 20 degrees above the ring plane, Cassini's wide angle camera shot 75 exposures in succession for this mosaic showing Saturn, its rings, and a few of its moons a day and a half after exact Saturn equinox, when the sun's disk was exactly overhead at the planet's equator. The images were taken on Aug. 12, 2009, at a distance of approximately 847,000 km (526,000 mi) from Saturn. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)
Cassini captured this image of a dimly lit Titan as Saturn's largest moon was eclipsed by the planet on May 7, 2009. Lit terrain seen here is on the Saturn-facing side of Titan. In Saturn's shadow, the southern hemisphere of Titan is lit by two sources: sunlight scattered through the planet's rings and refracted sunlight passing through the edge of Saturn's atmosphere. Stars in this image are smeared by the long camera exposure time of 560 seconds needed to capture the faint light on Titan. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute) #
This series of images of Janus, one of Saturns's smaller moons, shows strips of light and shadow passing over its face. Janus is in the shadow of Saturn's rings, and is briefly lit by a stripe of sunlight as it passes behind a gap in the rings. Photos taken on August 27, 2009. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute) #
The moon Prometheus and its nearby disturbance of Saturn's F ring. Prometheus periodically gores the F ring, drawing out streamers of material from the ring. The image was taken in visible light at a distance of approximately 950,000 km (590,000 mi) from Saturn. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute) #
Rays of light from the sun have taken many different paths to compose this image of Saturn and its rings. This view looks toward the unilluminated (north) side of the rings and, at the top of the image, the night side of Saturn. Sunlight has been reflected off the illuminated side of the rings to light the planet's southern hemisphere, seen here as a bright band of yellow-orange. The northern hemisphere, in the top left corner of the image, is dimly lit by light diffusely scattered through the rings. The planet's shadow cuts across the rings, but light reflected off the southern hemisphere backlights parts of the C ring, making them visible in silhouette. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute) #
Jagged looking shadows stretch away from vertical structures of ring material created by the moon Daphnis, a bright dot (8 km, or 5 mi across) casting a thin shadow just to the left of the center of the image. The moon has an inclined orbit, and its gravitational pull perturbs the orbits of the particles of the A ring forming the Keeler Gap's edge and sculpting the edge into waves having both horizontal (radial) and out-of-plane components. These scenes are possible only during the few months before and after Saturn's equinox, which occurs only once in about 15 Earth years. This image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 26, 2009, at a distance of approximately 823,000 km (511,000 mi) from Daphnis. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute) #
The gravity of potato-shaped Prometheus (86 km, or 53 mi across) periodically creates streamer-channels in the F ring. This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 9 degrees above the ringplane. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May 26, 2009 from approximately 922,000 km (573,000 mi) from Saturn. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute) #
An unusual-looking moon shadow crosses Saturn's rings. The shadow appears to 'skip' certain ring bands in a photo taken looking at the unlit side of Saturn's rings. Reflected sunlight and variable ring transparencies appear to be responsble for the striped shadow. More on the this phenomenon here. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute) #
Two sources of light illuminate the textured surface of the moon Enceladus. On the right of the image, sunlight bathes the anti-Saturn side of this geologically active moon. Saturnshine dimly lights the Saturn-facing side of the moon on the left of the image. The moon's surface is scarred by fractures, folds, and ridges. This view looks toward the trailing hemisphere of Enceladus (504 kilometers, or 313 miles across). North on Enceladus is up. The image was taken on July 26, 2009, at a distance of approximately 199,000 kilometers (124,000 miles) from Enceladus. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute) #
The shadow of Saturn's moon Mimas dips onto the planet's rings and straddles the Cassini Division in this natural color image taken as Saturn approaches its August 2009 equinox. Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on April 8, 2009 at a distance of approximately 1.1 million km (684,000 mi) from Saturn. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute) #
Cassini captured this image of a small object in the outer portion of Saturn's B ring casting a shadow on the rings as Saturn approaches its August 2009 equinox, on July 26, 2009. This new moonlet, situated about 480 km (300 mi) inward from the outer edge of the B ring, was found by detection of its shadow which stretches 41 km (25 mi) across the rings. The shadow length implies the moonlet is protruding about 200 meters, or 660 feet, above the ring plane. If the moonlet is orbiting in the same plane as the ring material surrounding it, which is likely, it must be about 400 meters, or 1,300 feet, across. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute) #
Cassini looks down on the north pole of Titan, showing night and day in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's largest moon. The north pole of Titan is rotated about 23 degrees to the left and it lies on the terminator above and to the left of the center of the image. Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view of Titan (5,150 km, or 3,200 mi across). The images were obtained on June 6, 2009 at a distance of approximately 194,000 km (121,000 mi) from Titan. Image scale is 11 km (7 mi) per pixel. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute) #
A big shadow from Saturn's largest moon, Titan, darkens the planet in the lower right of this image taken shortly after Saturn's August 2009 equinox. Saturn is overexposed in this image because the camera's long exposure time was set to show the rings which are dimly lit at equinox. Saturn's rings, which are 10 to 100 meters (30 to 300 feet) thick for the most part, cast a narrow shadow onto the planet. The image was taken on Aug. 19, 2009, at a distance of approximately 2.3 million km (1.4 million mi) from Saturn. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute) #
Cassini looks closely at the outer B ring and the Cassini Division, revealing clump-like structures in the outer edge of the B ring. The scrambled pattern in the B ring's outer edge is the result of the gravitational clumping of particles there. This image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on July 10, 2009, at a distance of approximately 320,000 km (199,000 mi) from Saturn. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute) #
This animated series of images of Saturn's F Ring was acquired by Cassini on June 10, 2009. Shepherd moons Prometheus (inner) and Pandora (outer) pass by, alternately smoothing and disturbing the particles that make up the ring. Kinks, knots, wakes and disturbances are apparent in the thin ring as it rotates. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute) #
The shadow of the moon Mimas has just slipped off Saturn's rings and onto the planet in this Cassini spacecraft image. The shadow is visible as a short dash below the rings' shadows on the planet. At this exposure setting, the rings are too dim to be seen easily. Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were obtained on April 30, 2009 at a distance of approximately 1.4 million km (870,000 mi) from Saturn. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute) #
Saturn's large moon Tethys appears before Saturn's rings and a smaller moonlet on October 16, 2009. Just above Tethys, the far side of the rings can be seen disappearing behind Saturn's dark side, slightly fading along the edge seen through the upper atmosphere. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute) #
More links and information
Cassini Equinox Mission - NASA/JPL
CICLOPS - Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations
Planetary Photojournal, Saturn - NASA/JPL
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Proof of the power of the Flying Spaghetti Monster! His noodly creations never cease to amaze...
#153,Scott Jenkins: You're kinda full of yourself aren't you?
These photographs have left me full of envy directed toward by my own grandchildren. Given proper directions from our offspring, and judging by the content of these pictures, we cannot imagine what will be available in their lifetime! It will only stop here if we allow that to happen in OUR lifetime; please urge continued support for these exploration programs to the planets of our life.
I love The Big Picture, but when these space-photo installments come up, I always hesitate to click on them, thinking they'll be boring - just some black and white speckled globes on a black background. I am ALWAYS wrong. These astronomy photos are consistently astounding and never fail to fire up the imagination. Keep up the great work!
Who created all these has: very good taste, patient and infinite intelligence!
Quelle limpidité ! Merveilleuses photos ! Et l'extraordinaire séquence/animation N°21 qui rend cet effet de vague avec les ballets des "lunes" Prometheus (bien rendu aussi sur le cliché N°4) et surtout de Pandora... Sublime ! Je n'ai aperçu personne sur ces satellites saturniens (la prise de vue est trop éloignée du sol), mais on dirait vraiment qu'il s'y passe quelque chose : regardez ces curieux et subtiles entrelacs sur Enceladus, clichés N°13 & N°17..., et ces atypiques cratères hexagonaux sur Thetys, cliché N°7, et cet énorme et inquiétant cratère "rectal" au pôle sud de Janus, cliché N°5 (quel spatial estron cosmique est-il prêt à en sortir ?). On peut rêver et ces photos nous y aident. Maravilloso !
Beautiful piczzzzz ......!!gr8 job ...
#156 God created science, dummy.
I hope that we can find intelligent life on other planets in my lifetime. That would be amazing.
#173 ... thanking Him 'cos He created gravity, dummy! And for the rings of Earth to fall on to Earth waaaay before I was born! ... and I'm gonna thank Him for that too! ; )
Apart from that ... awesome photography -- in awe at the majesty of these stellar subjects ... wished I could have been there!!
@ 125
I appreciate this is probably your very first internet blog comment, but if you don't practice a bit of humility, you are going to get flamed. And that, apparently, is rather unpleasant. Still, nice work there. Saturn Rocks.
Stunning! What a marvelous collection of images and animations. One of the most beautiful things I've every seen. Thank you!
@181 justmyimpression
You noticed :) !!!!
Actually no. I'm just tired of the same old un-solvable debate and the ridicules attitudes that go with it, from both sides. If they want to act like children then maybe they also want to be chastised as such as well. If they feel free to fill up ever single comment board I see when looking at such wonders then every now an again I'm going to voice an opinion. It is nothing more profound than one individual speaking his mind. I frequent astronomy sites rather often and the comments could be cut and pasted from one to the next. It is tiring. Normally good manners keep me from stating what is to me the obvious, but between international atheist day earlier this week and the response of the Christian right to put forth their own counter opinions I am a little fed up with it at the moment.
@ photos. Isn't it just awe inspiring that human beings are capable of witnessing these amazing sites? I've spent hours looking at Saturn and it's rings through my own scopes. To see the fascinating level of detail is a special treat to me. The vastness of the ring field when set in scale by a moonlet leaves me especially thrilled. To know this is, in astronomical terms, just next door leaves me anxious to see it and a little sad to know I never will.
God, in all his supposed wisdom, never supplied us images like this -- or even hinted them. It was left to us to do it ourselves. Like always.
Amazing. Loved seeing these pics.
Excelentes postales. Felicidades y gracias.
Super pictures, thanks, it`s very interesting.
c'est magnifique.
dommage que tant de commentaires ramènent au niveau de la religion.
It's great to see this, never saw such detailed pictures of Saturn. Great work.! What a marvelous collection of images, I'am very impressed, Some of the most amazing pictures I've ever seen of Saturn and it's moons. Thanks a lot to put this to larger public, to see this intresting Photo's.
Regards,
Wim from the Netherlands
Awesome pics! I wish NASA the best of luck in all future endeavours.
The future of the human race depends on efforts of this kind.
Superb images. What a great scientific achievement this is! Kudos to NASA and thanks to Boston.com
What's all this got to do with god or allah or bhagwan or whatever?
Just because we haven't figured it out yet, we can't attribute all GOOD things to god. Why don't we say 'god created tsunamis' or 'it was god's wish that millions die of hunger each year' or 'god wanted people to slit each other's throats, spray millions of bullets, bomb each other' ? I'm so fed up of theists crediting everything that is good to god but everything that is not good to human kind. And why is god always a male? HIM, HIS wish, etc? Can't these religious zealots accept god as a female?
Praise the Spaghetti Monster his noodles wave in the rings of Saturn. Pastafarianism is validated with these images as no others before.
WOW,,, HOW GREAT THOUGH ART, THOSE IMAGE JUST SAID HOW GREAT IS GOD.. IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL AND I KNOW THERE'S STILL A LOT OF BEAUTIFUL CREATIONS AROUND THE UNIVERSE...THANKS NASA FOR SHOWING IT...PLEASE GET MORE...
wow its really amazing
Peter, regarding your comment (#114) about picture 15, those two "moons" as you call them are actually stars with elongated shapes due to the long exposure setting. In case you don't understand this concept, it is the same as when you take a long exposure picture of a car at night and the "round" headlights show up as "streaks" across the photo. So drop the hoax crap (unless you want to call your car a "hoax" also!) and appreciate some fantastic photography!
Estupendo, increible. Is the most beautiful amazing wonders that I have ever saw in my whole life. Luz
^ check 173rd comment
Scott Jenkins, #192:
Ok, pretty good response, thanks...
Space, the final frontier....
Great pictures. It will be a good research tool for me.Thanks for publishing.
These are great pictures. Who cares how Saturn got there, just appreciate the photos. Leave your religious battles for myspace.
>> @Jake
>> "It's too bad Io was left out. It's an amazing, volcanic body."
Io is one of the Jupiter's satelittes. Not Saturn's.
soebhanallah, look what Allah created!!!
Simply put...very humbling.
supreme universal beautiful
Incredible, the wave images are mind blowing.
Thank you NASA for keeping up the good work!
I hope within the next 30 years or so we will be seeing the same kinds of pictures of Uranus and Neptune. There's still so much more to discover and enjoy as we have here at Saturn.
Yes, there is poverty, war, violence,religion, etc around us. All these are created by us. They are all supposed to be dealt with by the species called politicians! But there ought to be someone who can think beyond all this muck and contemplate on the vastness of the universe and give ordinary mortals a chance have a glimpse of the nature's grandeur. I am glad NASA is doing this.Thanks.
This can't be described in words.
This is simply magestic....
god is very big.
thanks for pics
#22 clearly Coco Chanel
Absolutely beautiful! I actually appreciate all the comments posted thus far. To NASA's credit, they pulled off a stunning display and we're only seeing a small fraction of what they have available (Thank you Globe for publishing.)
I am religious and also very interested in science, and so appreciate both the yea and nea posts regarding God, Allah, (hey, even Zeus posted) creation role in all this. It doesn't matter how it was done or when it occured, etc., at least in my mind, I think the majority of us can agree that we appreciate the awesome splendor displayed by the Cassini mission.
I do believe both Religion and Science can coexist and compliment each other. But just as we have wars over philosophical, geo, and political differences, greed, etc., so will we have differences of opinion on science, religion, and our personal beliefs. Maybe if more respected a person's right to their beliefs - whether we agree or disagree - there'd be more civility expressed in the some of the rebuttal comments on this page.
My personal belief is that God created all things through a complete and infinite knowledge and understanding of the laws of physics, sciences, universe, etc. We are barely scratching the surface of what we understand compared to God's knowledge and wisdom. But, I also believe science's role is to learn, discover, and understand how God did what He did and then how we can apply that knowledge to the betterment of our lives on earth. It doesn't matter if the individual scientist believes personally in God or not, there is knowledge and wisdom to be gained through scientific pursuit that can benefit many in the world; to include through space exploration.
To the Tsunami observation - the laws of nature can be influenced should the Creator of all so decide - we do not know all His purposes in allowing the negative things that happen in our lives. Maybe more lives might have been lost had some not felt a preminition, or heard a still, small voice in their heart or mind warn them to move inland, or felt impressed to move away from the shore. We will probably never really know the answers.
What would we be inspired to do if there was no bad, no sickness, no war, no disasters, no evil in the world? If a parent always prevented their child from taking a spill when learning to ride their bike, what would the child learn?
Maybe God wants us to learn to work together to overcome the negative in our world and discover together how to mute the affects, injury, and death of natural disasters in our various locations around this wonderful planet. Maybe He wants us to learn there are ways to settle disagreements or political differences without breaking things and killing people. I don't know, but that is how I see it.
NASA, great job! Globe, thank you! God, much appreciated!
OK, I am now stepping off my soap box for the next commenter.....
when we come across the whole universe,we realise one striking fact,our earth is different,yes,indeed you don't come across life in any planet that we have visited,do we see there water to give life,plants which grow or animals which live(they just suggest that life could have existed there),our earth is blessed by God(and corrupted by man) and it produces forth all kinds of fruits which feed the animals and man,the clouds bring forth shade and give us water,the winds are heralds of His Mercy.Man was created from it and unto iot does he return.God speaks in the Quran of how he has made the earth as man's repose and the skies as its firmament.The recent theory of Big Bang seems to be supported by the Quran"Have they not seen that the heavens and the earth were joined together and we cleft them asunder and We made from water every living thing,will they then not believe."
bacanes las imagenes. saludos from chile
That's so cool...I feel jealous though... i wish my astrophotography was this good...
robdotcom71, twitter
Some people comment that "As long as some persons live in poverty, things like space exploration are an unethical waste of money". Nonsense.
What those complainers are really saying is that "People of the vast middle class has no ethical justification for pooling their hard earned resources into projects of their collective choosing, until no person lives in poverty". In other words, middle class people do not really own their own hard earned resources because people in poverty have a higher ethical right to those hard earned resources, a right that outweighs the rights of those who earned them. Nonsense.
Further, their complaint implies that because there will always be poor people (realistically), it is unethical for humanity to ever explore beyond the Earth. Nonsense.
I haven't gone through the comments but I wanted to be sure to put a big thanks in to the fantastic Cassini team for their work on this mission. Well done and congratulations! Thanks for your many long hours putting together the entire collection.
but can you tell what has benefited us after somany journeys undertaken to space,if they serve a purpose like satellite communications,they are good,but the spacecrafts sent to the planets come back and are only able to guess there may have been life here,there could have been water there,i feel that, is completely useless.
So humbling. How insignificantly small a speck man is in the universe... and yet he can manage to create so much havoc for himself and his planet!
these are beautifully magnificent.
i agree with #129; can't we just enjoy the wonderful celestial heavenly bodies taken by the photography?
if we have to go into it, i used to be an atheist, then turned Catholic. if one is looking for proof, why not stop at the many written works of the existence of Jesus Christ?
as Dr Sagan put it "The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together"
To #222 What we have seen as planets is so incredibly few of them that what you are saying is whithout any merit.
It's like saying that after looking at ten grain of sand out of a whole beach and finding one black while the others nine are brown that that one is blessed among the whole beach, while in the whole beach there are other thousands of thousands black grains.
wow!!!!!! those were amazing I wonder how close you can get to Saturn
What hath Galileo wrought!!
re #230,well,sometimes you are right,i cannot be sure there is no life anywhere else,only God knows everything,the evident and the apparent,our knowledge can be compared to only drops of water a small bird sips from the great ocean,but i just happen to feel that our earth is unique,it is different and it is special,we believe that there are three kinds of creations who worship God,the first kind is the angels,whose innate nature is to obey God and praise Him,the second is the jinn,who have been given power and strength,most of them are evil,some years before man's creation,it is believed that they caused much corruption on the earth,they were driven out of it and the earth was cleansed,the third kind is man,who has been gifted with knowledge,the abilility to perceive things,the ability to know,learn and understand by which we can rise high above others,but many people donot use this gift and are degraded to the lowest of the low.anyway,it is irrelevant to us if life on other planets,for us our deeds and for them their deeds and we wouldnot be questioned as to theirs.God tells us in Quran about a group of young men,who fled for their faith after they were persecuted and tortured by their people"Some said "they were three and the fourth was their dog,some said"they were five and the sixth was their dog and still others said"they were seven and the eighth was their dog.say"Your Lord knows about their number and none know it except a few ,so donot dispute with them without clear evidence and argue not with them about it."how would we be affected if there are others living in faraway planets,what really matters is our actions.
Wicked Awesome Cool NEAT-O Mosquito!
Ces photos ...J'en ai le souffle coupé...
the sense of wonderment and belief that we are on the right track is confirmed by these fantastic pictures,- we are indeed living in momentous times
#153 - AMEN!
senza parole
#233 this is a scientific post. There is no God here. That's nature, not a statue. That was created by much more than what you have in your head, trust me.
Look.... and feel small. If simply gazing at these images doesn't give you chills and make you ponder your own existence, nothing will.
There is no such beauty as parts of the natural world being seen for the first time.
Stunning.
Makes you wonder.... how much of post-pro goes into publishing these photos.
It always makes me wonder if the focusing of these cameras ARE that good??!!
My camera can't focus THAT well, without me 'forcing' it to.... now bear in mind, the distance from camera to 'subject'...
makes you go....... mmmmmmmmmm??!!!
re #239
in recent experiments conducted by the scientists,it has been found that the electrons revolve around nucleus of atoms in an anticlockwise direction,planets revolve around the sun in an anticlockwise fashion,Muslims make their pilgrimage about the House of God in an anticlockwise direction as they were directed by their great leader,the one beloved to God,Abraham(upon him be peace).if there were no connection between religion and science,then how could be it that he knew how to make his rounds about God's house the way everything in the universe,from the atom to the galaxy declares His Praise,now that is not just a coincidence.God says in the Quran"O man what has made you careless about your Lord,the One who created you,fashioned you and perfected you,in whatever form He willed,no but you deny the Day of Judgement and appointed for you are two gaurdian angels,noble and writing down all what you do"
Quelle chance d'être de ce monde à cette époque et de pouvoir apprécier des clichés de cette beauté.
C'est splendide! Une véritable prouesse que d'obtenir une telle auto-regula- tion du temps d'ouverture de l'objectif de Cassini. Oui, laissons cet explorateur continuer ses investigations spatiales jusqu'en 2017.
Merci pour cette diffusion publique d'images exceptionnelles.
Благодарим ти, NASA! From Iceland with love!
Amazing, so clear it looks like a miniature stage for a 70's space moive. haha So clear, thank you!
@244: Electrons going counterclockwise around the nucleus of an atom? Right... I guess you flipped it over and held it in one place long enough to see this? I doubt you even realize what a ridiculous concept that is. Even the rotation of our planets is open to interpretation. Are we looking at the solar system from above, from the Earth's north pole down, or from below, staring up at Antarctica? Such typical manufacturing of 'proof' from a desperate group of self-delusional people willing to spout any sort of nonsense if only to justify their rotting book of primitive myths.
Juste magnifique, tant d'objets (lunes, satellites, anneaux,..) si proches (a l'échelle du système solaire) de leurs planète !
to Boas
well,sun sets in the west,that means the earth is rotating from east to west,unless you are looking at the sun from upside down,i haven't seen the inside of atoms for sure,but if,like you say the electrons are not moving anticlockwise,then the scientists must be wrong,so who is right?you may like to know about a group of scientists who tried to investigate the material of which the blackstone at Mecca(a stone which was sent down to earth from the heavens white,but the sins of men made it black) is made up of,one of them accepted Islam after it was found to be neither a meteor,nor any other heavenly body.this is only a few of the miracles that have been discovered recently,there are somany of them,noone knew at that time how foetus was formed and that there is a separation between the two seas,it doesn't matter if you believe or not,for we have this light by which God lifts us forth from darkness to His Guidance,see in me a sincere adviser,and even if you don't believe,atleast don't speak bad about it.
@249
if you didn't know that electrons revolve the nucleus in anti-clockwise direction, i think you should make better use of your soap box than comment badly about other religions. hadn't it been prohibited in my religion to curse others or insult them, i think i would have cursed you. hadn't it been that muslims believe in bible( for ur info, we believe bible was send by god, but, mishandled and misinterpreted by man), i would have called your book the same what you have called ours. i respect Jesus and believe in him as a prophet. so, i can't insult him either. no muslim insult bible, Jesus, Mary or the holy spirit( angel Gabriel). so i ask you not to insult islam and our prophet and our God.
Hope you heed this
And God created your mind, so that you could contemplate and comprehend the beauty of His creation...and then He connected it to the rest of the Universe, but just like billions of asteroids and cosmic particles, many minds get lost and float around in space, randomly, without meaning nor understanding....
Some of the best satellite imagery I've seen to date. Forget the theological debates and just enjoy the photos. God and science do not conflict unless you want them to.
Spectacular images!
Its hard to find on the web high quality photos like these!!
Thanks a lot!
Thanks for the kind words guys, I really appreciate it.
@252
Oh, I'm sorry, you though I was a Christian. No... I don't really care if you feel like insulting the Bible. The only book that matters to me is science. You can pick on that one all you want, too... insult its contents, call them into question, ridicule its authors, by all means. Have a blast. That's why science is so much fun.
Now, on to what you claim is my mistake: in order for something to be rotating anti-clockwise, the object that it is rotating around must first have a polarity. How do you measure the polarity of an atom? The negative component is the electron, which is rotating around the positive and neutral components in the nucleus. Trying to tell which part of this positively charged nucleus is "north" and which is "south" would be like trying to get a compass reading while standing on a perfectly round rubber ball in the middle of space. The single electron that is circling that proton is not traveling anti-clockwise, or clockwise, or north, or south, because there's no way to determine any of those directions.
Someone mentioned that "the scientists" discovered this anti-clockwise rotation of electrons. I'd love to see that report. Please prove me wrong.
This article is reproduced with the permission of New Scientist for exclusive use by Nova users.
The illusion of reality in a quantum world
17 March 2007
NewScientist.com news service
Marcus Chown
The superposition involves billions of electrons, so does that make it a bigger cat than carbon-70?
Not necessarily. Electrons travel around a SQUID in duos known as Cooper pairs. Thanks to Marquardt's model, you don't need to move billions of electrons to change one state into the other; shifting just a few Cooper pairs from the clockwise current will make an anticlockwise current - as long as they have enough energy or are travelling fast enough. "Despite the fact that the SQUID supports a macroscopically measurable current, it may in fact be a small cat," says Marquardt.
well,so you seem to agree that the earth revolves around sun anticlockwise,recently scientists also discovered that the ovum, prior to fertilization actually taking place, surrounded by sperms, turns remarkably in anti-clockwise direction.And,Mecca is the centre of the earth and not Greenwich,want to see reports?
@257
The main point is not whether you are a Christian or not. I just want you not to insult my religion, if not respecting it.
I didn't mean to indicate in my comment in 252 that electrons rotate in just anticlockwise direction. The electrons rotate around the nucleus in anticlockwise and clockwise direcion in their orbitals. this is the statement in "spin quantum number" (designated by letter 's'). Being a science enthusiast (as you have indicated), you got to know that! I don't know how the scientists discovered it, but they do have a lot of complicated instruments. And this I have not read from any islam related article, but , from my science reader (Iam a science student).
By the way an atom other than hydrogen has more than one electron in their shells.
If you take a picture of earth and invert it down, can you say that the north pole is actually south and that the south pole is actually north pole? How did you designate north and south for the earth?
I don't know about the revolution of electrons, for i haven't considered that. But, i did read an article in google saying the revolution of electrons is anticlockwise. i don't know the page..... so don't expect me to show it to you.
173 icpshootyz, very well explained.
every time people see something amazing they go wild with "praise god".
every time there is a horrible catastrophe they either forget god, or say "god has punished us, we deserved it", or make up any type of explanation where "god" wisely decides what will happen.
absolutely every and anything that happens GOD has acted. good or bad, it is his intention. people are certainly great story tellers with an interesting imagination, and delusion. and hey, god acts and thinks pretty much like a human being, so in the whole universe we are lucky to have our own private god, right here on earth!
GREAT pictures by the way!!
Beautiful, weren’t they? The understanding these images caused me effects my motivation to understand my own perfect balance. The images illustrate and prove wonderfully the perfect precision with which the law operates. "Gravity" is a name for it. Doesn’t balance on the grandest scale focus our attention, causing us to recognise the beauty we simply all know? The child of awareness looks out, at the most wondrous effect as our universes perfects balance. Love all your comments children of the light.
our earth is beautiful,God is great,only man is corrupt.
Pictures are really Great! Shows me what a wonderful God can do.
Excelent post icpshootyz! 2000 years the religious freaks have been polluting the science. Hopefuly, it will not last so long....
#264
are u saying that people started inhabiting the earth only 2000 years ago,go and read ur history books,the Indian civillilsations,the Roman civilisations began long before that,why is there a period called BC,because there were people living before Jesus to whom he was sent to,and anyway religion doesnot pollute science,rather it encourages man to acquire knowlege and to utillise it for the develpment of his felow men.
If you like it than you shoulda put a ring on it.
@258
I don't think you have the slightest idea what that copy/pasted report actually means. It certainly doesn't have anything to do with electrons rotating counterclockwise around the nucleus of an atom in their natural state.
@259
Our designation of north and south to the earth's poles is a cultural assignment to a natural phenomenon. We use a compass to point us north, right? However, by looking at geological data from the past we can see that earth's magnetic poles were switched some several hundred thousand years ago. Earth's magnetic field is shifting constantly as the earth rotates... it's just easier for us to put a label on it based on the way the compass works. Do you think the world would end if we suddenly changed our minds and started drawing maps upside down, with Antarctica on the top? It wouldn't matter, and suddenly from our perspective, the rotation of our celestial bodies and the revolution of the solar system would be reversed (assuming we start looking at space from this new perspective).
If you want to keep talking about things that go anticlockwise, and its relationship to Mecca, I have one for you: It happens whenever I flush my toilet.
I said a single electron because I'm assuming we'd just be looking at the rotation of one, like in a hydrogen atom, rather than many. Now that you mention it, though, the mere fact that electrons in state around their nucleus can be described as a "cloud" works against any theory even suggesting a fixed orbital pattern.
@267
human beings assigned north and south (i wonder what culture has to do with it). you are not a scientist or any genius to know how scientists assign north and south to the rotation of electrons. so, don't act like one. you rude fellow, you will have to answer to God one day and you will testify against yourself (it will happen whether you believe or not), I know it is not worth wasting my time trying to help you realise the truth, for you are partial minded. anyway, i might as well say what is in my mind.
for your kind information, orbital is no circular path (orbit is a circular path). Orbitals are electron clouds. so, the cloud theory of electrons do not conflict with the orbital theory as they are the same.
i have done my duty in conveying the truth, but, your obstinacy has prevented you from seeing it. you might regret it later.
if you have something against some muslims, don't get it out at Islam and Allah
(iam expecting a long, boring lecture trying to prove me wrong, for, that is what you always try to do. if you are expecting me to end this argument, i wont do it until and unless the blogger blocks my messages- Insha Allah).
to Boas
leave the electrons, i've mentioned somany things in nature which go anticlockwise,
here are a few more(from WikiAnswers)" Nature is Left-handed "We run counterclockwise because everything in nature tends towards counterclockwise motion" The list of natural phenomena that run counterclockwise is quite impressive. It includes: the molecule structure of amino acids, the shape of seashells, the rotational direction of all the planets (except Venus), and the orbital direction of the earth around the sun."now name a few that go clockwise
I never claimed to be a scientist, or even very smart. Case in point, my oversimplified explanation was misinterpreted because I said something rude about your dumb moon god. Obviously I'm not good enough at communicating this to someone who needs it spelled out perfectly for them.
Maybe I went about this all wrong. I wasn't prepared to give a lecture on Earth's electromagnetic field or the properties of electrons when I made my original comment. My mistake was in trying to argue with someone who is so detached from reality that they will go to such lengths to justify their beliefs. Seriously, counterclockwise rotation? I feel like an idiot for even letting it go this far.
Have fun shuffling around the sand in an anti-clockwise motion because Allah demands good and obedient little drones. I'm going to eat some bacon and read a Danish newspaper.
it is very true,wise people learn much from fools,but fools don't learn from the wise.
Ihope they find some intelegint life on other planet becuse we don't have any here
i am watching the universe on the history channel, and this is crazy i hope we find life out there before i am grass food. I am with 173! Why would god need thousands of meteorites to crater Saturn's moons like that. it is so far away how does that affect us.
I am also with 173
It's incredibly amazing and startling to see our outer limitless bounds of our neighboring planets. Still, I see as great as these planets are in the galaxy, Earth, as small as it is next to those titans by far we are rich in all God gives us to survive. Something to reflect on. Thanks technology.
I'm with 173....
iam against 173
if you are loved by God,you'd be loved by all.
God's create all of those.....Incredible..!!!...I wonder If the God give me an opportunity to see the sky....thanks God.