RIP Cassini

2017/09/17 15:00:42

Beepster

This was the last image Cassini took...

More pictures here...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/multimedia/cassini-bids-saturn-goodbye-with-final-images-1.4291781

and here...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/a-look-back-at-stunning-photos-taken-by-nasa-s-cassini-spacecraft-1.4278755

:-)

2017/09/17 16:30:23

craigb

I have this mental image that the last picture shows a bunch of extraterrestrials running in panic...

2017/09/17 17:02:18

Beepster

I think Saturtians would be more floaty than runny... but ya.

2017/09/17 17:13:48

craigb

Beepster
I think Saturtians would be more floaty than runny... but ya.

Maybe you're missing the gravity of the situation?

2017/09/17 17:20:22

Beepster

IIRC Saturn doesn't have a defined surface on which to run. Things just get smooshier and squishier until you get compressed into a much smaller thing than you started out as (or perhaps turned into a fine mist to become part of the atmosphere itself).

:-)

2017/09/17 17:42:08

craigb

This is a cool sentence regarding its structure! Sounds like a good description for a heavy metal band, ya?

Saturn's interior is probably composed of a core of iron–nickel and rock (silicon and oxygen compounds). This core is surrounded by a deep layer of metallic hydrogen, an intermediate layer of liquid hydrogen and liquid helium, and finally outside the Frenkel line a gaseous outer layer.

2017/09/17 17:56:09

Beepster

\m/