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The Rose The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm resembles a deep red rose of giant proportions surrounded by green foliage in this false-color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Measurements have sized the eye at a staggering 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) across with cloud speeds as fast as 330 miles per hour (150 meters per second). This image is among the first sunlit views of Saturn's north pole captured by Cassini's imaging cameras. When the spacecraft arrived in the Saturnian system in 2004, it was northern winter and the north pole was in darkness. Saturn's north pole was last imaged under sunlight by NASA's Voyager 2 in 1981; however, the observation geometry did not allow for detailed views of the poles. Consequently, it is not known how long this newly discovered north-polar hurricane has been active. The images were taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Nov. 27, 2012, using a combination of spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light. The images filtered at 890 nanometers are projected as blue. The images filtered at 728 nanometers are projected as green, and images filtered at 752 nanometers are projected as red. In this scheme, red indicates low clouds and green indicates high ones. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 261,000 miles (419,000 kilometers) from Saturn and at a sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 94 degrees. Image scale is 1 mile (2 kilometers) per pixel. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI

Images Captured By NASA

· May 1st, 2013 · Comments Off
Images Captured By NASACassini Spacecraft Captures Images of Saturn Hurricane The spacecraft Cassini, which was sent on a mission to Saturn, has produced vivid photographs of a spectacular ...
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Alien Planet PHOTO Shows Exoplanet Forming Near Star

· Mar 6th, 2013 · Comments Off
Alien Planet PHOTO Shows Exoplanet Forming Near StarPossible Planetary Womb Found Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have discovered an incredible development in the ...
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UFO hoax video Revealed As Elaborate Hoax

UFO hoax video Revealed As Elaborate Hoax

· Feb 10th, 2013 · Comments Off
UFO hoax video Revealed As Elaborate HoaxUFO hoax video was a hoax…shocker A fake UFO video shown on YouTube is currently in the news. Viewers quickly caught on to the fact that ...
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Asteroid The Size Of A Cruise Ship To Miss Earth On Feb 15Tth

Whew! Asteroid The Size Of A Cruise Ship To Miss Earth Says NASA (PHOTO)

· Feb 9th, 2013 · Comments Off
Asteroid The Size Of A Cruise Ship To Miss Earth On Feb 15Tth (photo credit NASA)Huge Asteroid To Miss Earth on February 15th Pass An asteroid comparable in size to a small cruise ...
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Super Bowl International Space Station, A Match Made In The Stars

· Feb 4th, 2013 · Comments Off
Super Bowl International Space Station, A Match Made In The StarsAstronauts Aboard Space Station to Host Super Bowl Party The popularity of the NFL’s Super Bowl has extended ...
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Chris Hadfield Explains the Art of Cutting Fingernails in Space

· Jan 19th, 2013 · Comments Off
Chris Hadfield Explains the Art of Cutting Fingernails in SpaceAstronaut Explains the Art of Cutting Fingernails in Space Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield was recently interviewed ...
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Blob In Space Slowly Makes It Way To Earth: PHOTO Captured By Hubble

· Jan 18th, 2013 · Comments Off
Blob In Space Slowly Makes It Way To EarthSolar Plasma brings Impressive Light Display A large blob of solar plasma was ejected from the surface of the Sun on Sunday January 13th and ...
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Russia Moon Probe To Launch Before 2015

· Jan 17th, 2013 · Comments Off
Russia Moon Probe To Launch Before 2015Russia plans new Moon Landings THe space race between the U.S. and Russia has begun again with the announcement that the Russian space agency ...
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Geminids Provide Peak Meteor Shower Show of Year

· Dec 12th, 2012 · Comments Off
Geminids Provide Peak Meteor Shower Show of Year Fans of celestial sky shows hope for clear weather as the annual Geminids Meteor Shower on Thursday, December 13, promises stargazers ...
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Newly Discovered Planet Composed of Diamonds

· Oct 12th, 2012 · Comments Off
Women who believe that diamonds are a girl’s best friend will be interested to know that scientists have discovered a new planet 40 light years from earth that is composed almost ...
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