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posted September 16, 2003 at 12:29 am

Amazing Hubble photo of Saturn's rings.

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6 comments
Ruben says:
Photoshopping is taught at the University of Arizona as well, I guess.
» by Ruben on Sep 16, 2003 at 02:22 PM
dowingba says:
What makes you think it's photoshopped?
» by dowingba on Sep 16, 2003 at 04:00 PM
craig says:
They're not Photoshopped, they're taken using different instruments in different wavelengths of light.
» by craig on Sep 17, 2003 at 09:49 AM
Ruben says:
@dowingba: Because I just can't believe Saturn looks that way when you wake up after a long travel and look out of your Space Shuttle window in the morning.
» by Ruben on Sep 17, 2003 at 12:00 PM
R. says:
The reason pics of Saturn tend to look flat and geometric is because, currently, they're taken from so far away. I remember viewing the planet through one of our university telescopes back in college. Damn thing looked like a stencil. I was hella disappointed.

Cassini-Huygens will change all that.
» by R. on Sep 17, 2003 at 01:52 PM
JM says:
yeah, that's really what it looks like in the middle pic. pretty effin awesome.
» by JM on Sep 17, 2003 at 05:06 PM

 
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