The Beauty & Majesty of SATURN.......Viewpoint: Saturn snapped as Earth smiled

[Cidersomerset]

Cassini hints at young age for Saturn's rings (what David Icke has said for
years, but they are MUCH younger than 100 million years and NOT natural)

By Andrew Cheetham on 30 August 2017 GMT




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Cassini hints at young age for Saturn's rings

By Jonathan Amos...BBC Science Correspondent
30 August 2017..


Cassini has been trying to weigh the rings

The spectacular rings of Saturn may be relatively young, perhaps just 100
million years or so old.This is the early interpretation of data gathered by
the Cassini spacecraft on its final orbits of the giant world.

If confirmed, it means we are looking at Saturn at a very special time in
the age of the Solar System. Cassini is scheduled to make only two more
close-in passes before driving itself to destruction in Saturn's atmosphere
on 15 September.

read more....


Artwork: Cassini is currently running the narrow gap between the top
of the planet's atmosphere and the rings

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41091333

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Cassini: Saturn probe to set up death plunge

By Jonathan Amos
BBC Science Correspondent

2 hours ago
From the section Science & Environment



Artwork: When Cassini enters the atmosphere, it will break up and melt

The international Cassini probe at Saturn will execute the course
correction on Monday that will put it on a path to destruction.
The spacecraft is set to fly close to the giant moon Titan - an
encounter that will bend its trajectory just enough to send it
into the atmosphere of the ringed planet on Friday.

Once the orbit has been tweaked, nothing can stop the death
plunge. Cassini will be torn to pieces within seconds of entering
Saturn's gases. "That final flyby of Titan will put Cassini on an
impacting trajectory and there is absolutely no coming out of
it," said Earl Maize, the Cassini programme manager at the
US space agency (Nasa).


read more..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41222282

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'Our Saturn years'

Cassini's epic journey to the ringed planet, told by the people who helped make it happen

13 sept 2017




read more...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/...huygens_saturn

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Crashing Into Saturn: This Cassini Mission Is the Most Epic Yet | Short Film Showcase

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=68vxYRAony8

pub...2017

Goodbye Cassini
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/...huygens_saturn

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PBS NOVA Cassini Saturn Mission Documentary 2017

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xMO5rU032l8

Published on 14 Sep 2017
PBS Death Dive to Saturn NOVA

[Star Tsar]

Saturnian ORBS anyone?

Posted by Star Tsar (here)
Space.com

Saturn & Its Rings Meet Sun Glare In Ethereal Cassini Photo

Published 6th March 2018



Saturn and its rings shine through the sun's glare across the Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera in a newly released photo from the planetary mission.

Read all about it here: https://www.space.com/39897-saturn-t...ace-photo.html

[Foxie Loxie]

Norm Bergrum's "Ringmakers of Saturn".....was anyone able to afford a copy of it?!

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Foxie Loxie (here)
Norm Bergrum's "Ringmakers of Saturn".....was anyone able to afford a copy of it?!

Compliments of Hym, a free pdf - RingmakersOfSaturn

FYI: this is a post from May, 2016. Here's the updated price: $1,500 used & $5,900 new.

Ringmakers of Saturn, by: Dr Norman Bergen.

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Check out the price @ Amazon.com.

Summary:

New 1986 hardcover - Signed by Norman Bergrun with full color photos & illustrations. From photographs taken during the Voyager 1 flight to SATURN in 1980 the reader of this remarkable book sees that one of the photgraphs shows that the A-ring is incomplete.The author sets out to explain this phenomenon in an understandable form. The famous Cassini and Enke gaps also fit into the author's explanation.

The micro photography employed by the Author answers many of the questions about Saturn asked since Galileo and the Author further shows a relation to the well defined crater on the earth's moon called 'Mare Orientale' and to the 1908 Tunguska catastrophe in the U.S.S.R. CREDENTIALS: Dr. Norman Bergrun is an alumnus of Ames Research Laboratory, NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) predecessor of Ames Research Center, NASA where he worked twelve years as a research scientist.

At Ames, he pioneered the setting of design criteria for airplane thermal ice-prevention and the developing of roll stability laws for airplanes, missiles and rockets. He joined Lockheed Missiles and Space Company (now Lockheed Martin) where he was manager of the planning and analysis of flight tests for the Navy Polaris Underwater Launch Missile System.

During his thirteen years at Lockheed, he also served as a senior scientist having responsible analysis cognizance of special space-satellite applications. An Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronauics (AIAA), he is active as a leader in Congressional Visits Day events on Capitol Hill. Credited with numerous awards and citations including the California Society of Professional Engineers Archimedes Engineering Achievement Award... he is listed in "Who's Who in America", "Who's Who in Science and Engineering", and other reference works.

[Foxie Loxie]

Whoa!!!!! WOW!! Thank you Hym & Paula.....I about fell out of my chair! I am speechless!!

I remember well the video of Kerry interviewing him; what struck me was how he was all dressed up in his suit & bowtie & Kerry was there in her tattered jeans....it was quite a juxtaposition!!

I never expected to ever actually be able to read what he wrote; THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

[Cidersomerset]

Basics Of Life Discovered On Saturn’s Moon Enceladus | Mach | NBC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0XwOm-uVi4
Published on 28 Jun 2018...NBC...( 2 mins )...
By analyzing old data from a dead spacecraft, scientists have found that Saturn’s
moon Enceladus may be the most promising place to search for life beyond Earth.
For the first time, complex organic molecules were discovered in the icy plumes
erupting from the small moon.
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Saturn moon a step closer to hosting life

By Mary Halton
Science reporter, BBC News..27 June 2018


Scientists have found complex carbon-based molecules in the waters of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

Compounds like this have only previously been found on Earth, and in some
meteorites.They are thought to have formed in reactions between water and warm
rock at the base of the moon's subsurface ocean.Though not a sign of life, their
presence suggests Enceladus could play host to living organisms.The discovery
came from data gathered by the Cassini spacecraft.


Small neighbourhood: Enceladus is just 500km wide

A new pale blue dot?

"These huge molecules contain a complex network often built from hundreds of
atoms," explains study author Dr Frank Postberg.

"This is the first ever detection of such complex organics coming from an
extraterrestrial water-world."

On Earth, these molecules are usually biologically created, but this does not have to
be the case."They are a necessary precursor to life," says Dr Postberg, "[but] we
currently cannot tell if these organics are biologically irrelevant or signs of prebiotic
chemistry or even life."

What does life need?
◾Liquid water
◾Energy
◾Organics (compounds containing carbon)
◾A group of particular elements (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulphur)

Phosphorus and sulphur have not yet been measured on the moon, but it has all of the other ingredients.

What next?

The Cassini mission, which ended by plunging into Saturn's cloud-tops last
September, was never designed to detect life. In fact, it was dispatched before
scientists even knew about the peculiar jets of water emerging from the south pole
of Enceladus. Cassini first observed them in 2005, after its arrival in the Saturn
system.The technology to distinguish whether molecules like those detected are
biological in origin already exists on Earth.

"The next logical step," says Dr Postberg, "is to go back to Enceladus soon with a
dedicated payload and see if there is extraterrestrial life."


read more....https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44630121

[Cidersomerset]

Life on Saturn? New Discovery Sparks Speculation

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hcdSxFsAXhA

Published on 2 Jul 2018...RT,,,( 3 mins )...
Could life exist on one of Saturn's moons? That’s the question researchers are
asking after discovering large organic molecules seeping out of the moon's
ice-covered ocean. RT America’s Trinity Chavez explains.