New amazing pictures of Saturn (NASA's Cassini spacecraft)

[Lovejoy]

(teh old?)

23 stunning picture of Saturn and its moons and rings. I believe they are pretty new. (follow the link)

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/200...t_equinox.html

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Checking in with NASA's Cassini spacecraft, our current emissary to Saturn, some 1.5 billion kilometers (932 million miles) distant from Earth, we find it recently gathering images of the Saturnian system at equinox. During the equinox, the sunlight casts long shadows across Saturn's rings, highlighting previously known phenomena and revealing a few never-before seen images. Cassini continues to orbit Saturn, part of its extended Equinox Mission, funded through through September 2010. A proposal for a further extension is under consideration, one that would keep Cassini in orbit until 2017, ending with a spectacular series of orbits inside the rings followed by a suicide plunge into Saturn on Sept. 15, 2017.

I was amazed when I saw them, and thought you guys might like them. Just imaging to travel there by yourself. O_o

Cred to NASA, who once again makes our jaws drop.

[Yosemite]

these look awesome

i wish they would be releasing higher res pics, such as 1680x1050

[D.B. Cooper]

That's unreal

[SturmChurro]

Pretty cool.

[♔Jean-Luc Picard♔]

awesome pics.

[Morkonan]

These are truly awe-inspiring! I'd love to be able to have a first-hand view.

Thanks for the great link and pics!

[Ramashan]

i wish they would be releasing higher res pics, such as 1680x1050

Hows 1020 x 1020, some may be larger. NASA and JPL usually post the raw images on their sites. I believe all the images captured by these government funded missions are public domain.

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/?start=1