@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.
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.
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RubenSep 16, 2003 at 2:22PM
Photoshopping is taught at the University of Arizona as well, I guess.
dowingbaSep 16, 2003 at 4:00PM
What makes you think it's photoshopped?
craigSep 17, 2003 at 9:49AM
They're not Photoshopped, they're taken using different instruments in different wavelengths of light.
RubenSep 17, 2003 at 12:00PM
@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.
R.Sep 17, 2003 at 1:52PM
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.
JMSep 17, 2003 at 5:06PM
yeah, that's really what it looks like in the middle pic. pretty effin awesome.
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