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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
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Stereo Saturn
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Stereo Saturn
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Get out your red/blue glasses [ http://img.arc.nasa…] and launch [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] yourself into this stereo [ http://cass.jsc.nas…] picture of Saturn! The picture is actually composed from two images recorded weeks apart by the Voyager 2 spacecraft [ http://vraptor.jpl.…] during its visit to the Saturnian System [ http://nssdc.gsfc.n…] in August of 1981. Traveling at about 35,000 miles per hour, the spacecraft's changing viewpoint from one image to the next produced this exaggerated but pleasing stereo effect [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. Saturn is the second largest planet in the Solar System [ http://seds.lpl.ari…], after Jupiter. Its spectacular ring system [ http://ringmaster.a…] is so wide that it would span the space between the Earth and Moon. Although they look solid here, Saturn's Rings [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] consist of individually orbiting bits of ice and rock ranging in size from grains of sand to barn-sized boulders.
Explanation
Get out your red/blue glasses [ http://img.arc.nasa…] and launch [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] yourself into this stereo [ http://cass.jsc.nas…] picture of Saturn! The picture is actually composed from two images recorded weeks apart by the Voyager 2 spacecraft [ http://vraptor.jpl.…] during its visit to the Saturnian System [ http://nssdc.gsfc.n…] in August of 1981. Traveling at about 35,000 miles per hour, the spacecraft's changing viewpoint from one image to the next produced this exaggerated but pleasing stereo effect [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. Saturn is the second largest planet in the Solar System [ http://seds.lpl.ari…], after Jupiter. Its spectacular ring system [ http://ringmaster.a…] is so wide that it would span the space between the Earth and Moon. Although they look solid here, Saturn's Rings [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] consist of individually orbiting bits of ice and rock ranging in size from grains of sand to barn-sized boulders. Explanation
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Credit_and_Copyright
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saturn
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rings
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voyager
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1981
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1981
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Arizona
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Arizona
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Saturn
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Saturn
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Jupiter
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Jupiter
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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Johnson Space Center (JSC)
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Johnson Space Center (JSC)
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Earth
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Earth
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Voyager
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Voyager
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Moon
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Moon
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Atlas
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Atlas
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Saturn
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Saturn
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STEREO
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STEREO
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Jupiter
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Jupiter
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Voyager 2
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Voyager 2
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1981
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1981
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original url:
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SPD-APOD-ap990130
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SPD-APOD-ap990130
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