Before crashing, Cassini captured the rather strange Moon Pan of Saturn

[uzn]

Here some of the last Pictures of the Spaceprobe Cassini and some of the first Closeups of Saturns Moon Pan. He looks well..... , judge yourself ;)

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/4_n1867606709_1.jpg

https://1.f.ix.de/imgs/18/2/1/5/7/7/5/2/Pan-8f980f3d39f96353.gif

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/N00277991.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/N00277990.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/N00277984.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/N00277981.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/N00277980.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/N00277974.jpg

[uzn]

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/N00277974.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/N00277973.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/N00277970.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/N00277967.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/N00277962.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/N00277956.jpg

[Eram]

Looks like the Dutch tiny mini pancakes that we named : poffertjes :P

http://www.famme.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/poffertjes.jpg

[Chester]

Looks like the Dutch tiny mini pancakes that we named : poffertjes :P

http://www.famme.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/poffertjes.jpg

There is nothing like "Dutch Humor."

I Love It!

[uzn]

Lets remember poor Cassini Spacedrone, destined to snap some Pictures. Strikes me why they did not give her a Color Camera, but hey its NASA ;). So on her Way while snapping some Pictures Cassini crashed, poor Thing not much of a guiding System there I guess.
Here some more pics:
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA11688.jpg

Daphnis making waves in the Rings of Saturn ;)
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia21056_deblurred.jpg

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia17212.jpg

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA11654.jpg

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA11547.jpg

Surface of Titan:
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/N00277890.jpg

Hexagon of Saturns Pole
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/W00104573.jpg

[uzn]

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia21432_figb_annotated.jpg

http://digiro.ir/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Space-Photos-of-the-Week-A-Supermassive-Black-Hole-Just-Wants-Some-Privacy-4.jpg

Anomaly in F-Ring
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/news/2016/06/15/jupiter/01_saturn_ring.jpg

[norman]

Those rings look like they were hot plastic extrusions from some sort of cosmic Tarmac machine.

[Pam]

Looks a bit like a pan pizza, or maybe a calzoni :bigsmile:

[uzn]

Epimetheus
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/W00103880.jpg
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/N00277356.jpg
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/N00277335.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/W00104727.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/W00104364.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/W00104251.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/W00104250.jpg

Dione
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/N00277626.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/W00103921.jpg

[Foxie Loxie]

Thanks so much for the pictures! Can't help but think of "Ringmakers of Saturn"! :wink:

[uzn]

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/W00103781.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/W00103757.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/N00276723.jpg

Enceladus
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/N00276684.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/W00103486.jpg

NASA is going for the psychedelic experience
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/W00103674.jpg

definitly getting somewhere NASA:
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/W00103483.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/W00103379.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/N00276134.jpg

[uzn]

Nimas
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/N00276207.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/N00275754.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS98/W00103334.jpg

Epimetheus
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/W00103311.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/N00275738.jpg

Tethys
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/N00275696.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/N00275135.jpg

another good one NASA
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/W00103267.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/W00103266.jpg

[uzn]

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/W00103258.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/N00274657.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/W00102994.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/W00102995.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/N00274028.jpg

[Axman]

I wonder If NASA has pic's of the Federation of plant's ships that are supposed to reside in Saturn's rings. Just throwing that out there. Some fricken Awesome pictures indeed. One observation How come some are full of stars in the back round and some are not. Hmm


The Axman

[Star Tsar]

Speaking of Moons n Rings...


SETI Institute

SETI Talks 2017 | Paul Kalas - The Search For Extra Solar Moons Using Transit Observations

Published 10th March 2017

Given the dectection of several thousand exo-planets, A very interesting question to ask is whether or not they have moons or rings?
Exomoons or rings have yet to be detected with Kepler data.
Given our understanding, Gas giants may not support life but a Moon could be far more conducive to life. In this presentation Paul Kalas points out the best candidates for detection.

Supporting link: http://www.seti.org/weekly-lecture/search-extrasolar-moons-and-rings-using-transit-observations

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[uzn]

more Titan
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/N00273730.jpg

Enceladus
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/N00273453.jpg

?
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/W00102935.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/W00102937.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/W00102889.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/W00102884.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/W00102853.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/N00273269.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/N00273241.jpg

[uzn]

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/W00102858.jpg

Pandora
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/N00273208.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/N00273190.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/N00273149.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/N00273055.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/N00272995.jpg

Tethys
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/N00272698.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/W00102640.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/W00102566.jpg

[uzn]

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/W00102559.jpg

Titan
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/W00102548.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS97/W00102438.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/W00102339.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00272322.jpg

Titan
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00272263.jpg

Mimas
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00272257.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00272248.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00272239.jpg

[uzn]

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00272238.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00272235.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/W00101896.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00271528.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00271523.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/W00101855.jpg

Titan
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00271222.jpg

Janus
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00271095.jpg

Prometheus
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00271089.jpg

[Yetti]

ERAM> Plese send me the recipe of those : Poffertjes... they look delicious !

[Yetti]

Hey Axman. Do you really think Nasa will show such a pictures? if they have it? NASA :Never a straigth answer

[Axman]

No I don't think so Yetti just a thought I had if the world worked the way it was supposed to would that be great or what.

The Axman

[TEOTWAIKI]

I can't stop scrolling through these pics.
They are "out of this world".
Seems the camera couldn't focus on Titan; very strange.
Did Cassini really crash or was that the cover story?
Thanks, uzn for posting these.

[uzn]

NASA sais it crashed into Saturn on the 15 Sep 2017. There are tons of flybyes of Titan, but they all seem to look like a blurred Cloud.

https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/system/downloadable_items/737_Cassini_Prox_and_Graze.gif
In this animated view created by Cassini's mission planning team, blue represents the Solstice mission orbits that began in 2010.
Yellow represents the 20 Ring-Grazing (F ring) Orbits, the penultimate science phase of the mission.
Orange represents the 22 Grand Finale orbits - Cassini's final exciting science phase.

Thats from 2004 at the start of the Mission:
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullC43/N00012855.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00270979.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/W00101787.jpg

Dione
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00270659.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00270653.jpg

Mimas
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00270591.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00270587.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00270567.jpg

[uzn]

Enceladus
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00270501.jpg

Rhea
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00270376.jpg

Titan, foggy as always
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00270211.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00269810.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00269887.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00269772.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00269765.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/W00101440.jpg

Titan
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00268758.jpg

[uzn]

Titan
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/W00101335.jpg
with Closeup
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00268705.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/W00101319.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00268661.jpg

Strange shadow from Lightsource
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/W00101294.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/W00101292.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/W00101290.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00268601.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00268532.jpg

[uzn]

Prometheus
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00268499.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/W00101250.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/W00101208.jpg

Really Close to Saturn
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00267662.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/W00101188.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/W00101162.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/W00101163.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/W00101133.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/W00101173.jpg

[uzn]

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS95/W00100646.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS95/N00266022.jpg

Hyperion
https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS95/N00265870.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS95/N00265805.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS95/N00265768.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS95/W00100560.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS95/N00265151.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS95/N00265117.jpg

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS95/W00100360.jpg

[Builder]

Looks like the Dutch tiny mini pancakes that we named : poffertjes :P

Henceforward this moon shall be called Poffertjes! *grin*

[Builder]

A beautiful short film by Chris Abbas:

KNmgiinYY-M

[ThePythonicCow]

How come some are full of stars in the back round and some are not. Hmm
The images with the stars don't have any nearby, bright objects in them, so the camera can take a longer exposure, without overloading the sensor. The stars are very dim, compared to the nearby planet and moons, so don't show in images containing a planet or moons.

[Star Tsar]

NASA JPL

Cassini's Grand Finale Preview

Published & Streamed 4th April 2017

Check out Nasa's press conference which took place yesterday from NASA JPL, Pasadena, California, In order to preview Cassini's saturnian swansong, The final part of the mission which takes place later this month.

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[uzn]

Here a CG Imagination of how Things looked for Cassini in its final hour.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrGAQCq9BMU

[Star Tsar]

It's not gone yet uzn! :bigsmile: Will be around until September this page has an orbit schedule for you.

https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/grand-finale/grand-finale-orbit-guide/

[Star Tsar]

The Cosmos News

Stunning Closeup View Of Saturn's UFO-shaped Moon Atlas

Published 14th April 2017

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[amor]

The satellite (rather than moon), PAN, of Saturn resembles an EAR. What is plugged into the EAR appears to resemble an electrical socket with a "bulb" of winding shape from which a coiled electrical "wire" exits to enter the inside of the "moon." What if this really was meant to mimic the human EAR but in gigantic terms. After all, Saturn is a giant planet or sleeping sun which is said to be encircled by a spaceship of equally huge size playing some part in shaping or producing the rings. Elsewhere on the internet is a "voice" purported to be broadcasting a message to new arrivals. It really does sound authoritative and intimidating.

On Mimas, there seem to be two very tall "walls" meeting at a "right angle." Something going on there? David Wilcock in one of his lectures states that these moons and asteroids have been cored out and used as outposts in hiding by highly technological aliens, some of gigantic size, some presently occupied, others possibly awaiting reoccupation by their builders. His sidekick Corey Good, part of the secret space program, says many of these have been investigated. There is a technology which can warp and part matter which closes behind the entrant. Therefore, these hiding holes are impervious to those who do not have this technology.

Another interesting statement by David Wilcock (information from Corey Good) is that there are two Secret Space Programs. One is told that humans are alone in our solar system, etc., and that they cannot travel beyond our solar system. The other has, and does travel throughout the galaxy and possibly beyond, trading with over 900 races. The next time NASA puts up a rocket ship (which lands secretly in the ocean) they should be booed out of business.

Another thing. Because of the nature of the inter-dimensional field (as above, so below), life forms are the same but differ in size. One of the reasons, I think, Earth experienced Giants was that they came through inter-dimensional portals from areas where everything was larger than it is here, thus their need to eat people, etc.

[amor]

Tie this information to David Icke's:
Default Re: The Great Flood, the Moon, and Weaponized Weather

Another thread today discusses a moon of Saturn called Pan. This Object, especially after listening to David, resembles an EAR inside of which is another object resembling an electrical stem holding a bulb-like device from which what looks like a huge coiled wire enters the EAR. What if the SOUND broadcast by Saturn is coming from this satellite object called PAN and its frequencies are organizing the rings of Saturn as well as are being BROADCAST to our MOON which AMPLIFIES them to keep us controlled.

To NASA I say, knock out the EAR, PAN and the sounds stop and so does the control of humanity. The Moon cannot amplify what it is not receiving. Amor.

[The Freedom Train]

Tie this information to David Icke's:
Default Re: The Great Flood, the Moon, and Weaponized Weather

Another thread today discusses a moon of Saturn called Pan. This Object, especially after listening to David, resembles an EAR inside of which is another object resembling an electrical stem holding a bulb-like device from which what looks like a huge coiled wire enters the EAR. What if the SOUND broadcast by Saturn is coming from this satellite object called PAN and its frequencies are organizing the rings of Saturn as well as are being BROADCAST to our MOON which AMPLIFIES them to keep us controlled.

To NASA I say, knock out the EAR, PAN and the sounds stop and so does the control of humanity. The Moon cannot amplify what it is not receiving. Amor.

Thank you for making the connection, Amor. I had seen this thread and was blown away by the pictures. I had no idea Saturn had so many moons! Apparently, 62 of them. I found one explanation stating the reason for Saturn's many moons is that Saturn has a large gravitational pull. But it is 10.44 m/s^2 as opposed to Earth's which is 9.807 m/s^2. In my mind, that is not a huge difference, and yet Earth has only one moon....

Perhaps all of the moons are satellites placed in orbit around Saturn for the purposes David Icke discusses - as amplifiers/senders of the Saturn signal that is then bounced to the moon and subsequently to Earth. Perhaps some of them are designated to bounce signals to other planets that are set up in a similar prison planet fashion. Or maybe some of the moon satellites/amplifiers were disabled in previous "star wars" and had to be replaced with new ones. And maybe some of them are just innocent asteroids that got adopted via Saturn's gravitational pull. Perhaps some combination of all of the above. Such interesting food for thought.

I do find it strange that the one moon I copied and pasted below looks so much like the Death Star from Star Wars (as David Icke pointed out). Also strange to me is why in the middle of the large crater there is a giant tower-like rock formation or structure - how would that get there after a theoretical natural formation of the crater? It looks soooo much like a satellite dish.

https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS96/N00270567.jpg

[Bill Ryan]

Also strange to me is why in the middle of the large crater there is a giant tower-like rock formation or structure - how would that get there after a theoretical natural formation of the crater?

It's called a complex crater. Here's the science:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_crater

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Craterstructure.gif/500px-Craterstructure.gif

A good example is the lunar crater, Tycho:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/LRO_WAC_Tycho_crater_mosaic.jpg/500px-LRO_WAC_Tycho_crater_mosaic.jpg

[ThePythonicCow]

Also strange to me is why in the middle of the large crater there is a giant tower-like rock formation or structure - how would that get there after a theoretical natural formation of the crater?


It's called a complex crater. Here's the science:

Yes - they are called "complex craters". I think we can go further and explain why or how they were formed.

The ThunderboltsProject has the most persuasive explanation that I know of. These complex craters are best explained as electrical discharge craters, not impact or volcanic craters.

In the following Thunderbolts Project episode, their guest Barry Setterfield, the astronomer at the New Hope Observatory in Grants Pass, Oregon, outlines a number of guidelines for assessing whether craters on planets, moons, and other bodies were created by impacts or by electrical discharge machining.
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The Thunderbolts Project has described flat floored, complex, craters as being commonly caused by electrical discharge rather than impact in various other videos as well, such as Electrical Scarring of Planets and Moons (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DEvb6yEQ_0) and Electrical Scarring of Planets and Moons -- Pt. Two (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5NK5j7dI0s). [ P.S. -- these two videos are good - well worth watching. -- Paul. ]

From a different source, here's an article discussing such craters and the various ways they might be formed: Craters – Impact or Electric – Hard To Tell (https://andrewdhall.wordpress.com/2015/10/28/craters-impact-or-electric-hard-to-tell/), which also finds good evidence that some of these craters are best explained as the creation of plasma electrical discharge, not of impact.

[The Freedom Train]

Thanks Bill and Paul for clearing that up! And how convenient that there just happens to be a scientific explanation for that crater's formation.... :wink:

Although I still like the satellie dish idea, I can see that there is a lot to the science of all this that I have yet to learn!

[amor]

To The Freedom Train: If there is something that looks like an antenna, especially if on the moon, that is exactly what it is. Also, with many bodies which look like innocent moons, interior dwellers would need some sort of communication with the outer, even if disguised as something else. Also, when looking at the surfaces of these bodies I notice large quantities of tiny domes often arranged in a row with another row of them at right angles. Looking closely around at similar domes, my message is they exemplify SETTLEMENT PATTERNS. Humans and others have been occupying the neighborhood for a long long time.

[The Freedom Train]

To The Freedom Train: If there is something that looks like an antenna, especially if on the moon, that is exactly what it is. Also, with many bodies which look like innocent moons, interior dwellers would need some sort of communication with the outer, even if disguised as something else. Also, when looking at the surfaces of these bodies I notice large quantities of tiny domes often arranged in a row with another row of them at right angles. Looking closely around at similar domes, my message is they exemplify SETTLEMENT PATTERNS. Humans and others have been occupying the neighborhood for a long long time.

Thank you Amor, I definitely feel like what you speak of is along the lines of what is really going on. But of course I can only go by my hunch on it. And then there is science, which although is rife with bias and theory posing as fact, and is also riddled with the problems of limited and most probably manipulated perception, is the most solid and "safe" thing for any *thinking* person to hitch their wagon to. :)

[onawah]

Pan doesn't look to me like a natural object at all.
Has there been any plausible explanation as to how it might have become shaped like that?

[Star Tsar]

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Orbit 10.15 | Lisa Tatge | Cassini's Grand Finale

Published 23rd April 2017

Lisa Tatge, Subsystem Engineer on the Spacecraft Operations Team for the Cassini Mission to Saturn joins us for an incredible interview about the Cassini mission and it's upcoming Grand Finale.

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[Atlas]

It's called a complex crater.
A water droplet creates quite a similar phenomenon:
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[Foxie Loxie]

WHOA!!!! Thanks Starman for the Cassini interview with Lisa Tatje....Amazing stuff!! :clapping:

[Star Tsar]

Nemesis Maturity

Cassini Captures Strange Objects Near Saturn's Moon Titan

Published 25th April 2017

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Read more: https://phys.org/news/2017-04-cassini-finaland-fatefultitan-flyby.html

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[Star Tsar]

Space.com

Cassini's Grand Finale Dives - Risks Vs Rewards Explained By NASA

Published 26th April 2017

As Cassini begins the first of it's 22 dives between the rings of Saturn, NASA expain the risks vs the rewards of such an undertaking.

Read more here: http://www.space.com/36604-cassini-spacecraft-first-grand-finale-dive-saturn.html

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[Star Tsar]

Space

Closest Saturn Pics Yet Snapped During Daring Cassini Dive

Published 27th April 2017

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft’s ’Grand Finale’ has begun with the first of 22 planned dives between the Saturn's innermost rings and the planet itself. The probe came within about 1900 miles (3000 km) of the planet's cloudtops and captured some amazing images.

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[Star Tsar]

Space.com

Listen In! As Cassini Hits Very Few Particles On Daring Dive

Published 2nd May 2017

Read all about it here: http://www.space.com/36693-saturn-big-empty-cassini-second-ring-dive.html

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[Star Tsar]

NASA JPL

Cassini's First Fantastic Dive Past Saturn

Published 3rd May 2017

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[Star Tsar]

Nemesis Maturity / Phys.org

Cassini Finds Vast Void & Reveals "Creepy" Sounds Between Saturn's Rings

Published 9th May 2017

Supporting Link: https://phys.org/news/2017-05-cassini-probe-vast-void-saturn.html#jCp

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[Star Tsar]

NASA JPL

Going Out In A Blaze Of Glory | Cassini Science Hightlights & Grand Finale

Published 11th May 2017

This public talk rounds up the latest mission data & highlights challenges that lay ahead for the doomed probe.

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[Star Tsar]

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Deep Astronomy

Scott Edgington, Jo Piteski & Morgan Cable | Cassini : A Remarkable Journey

Streamed & Published 25th May 2017

The Cassini probe began it's grand finale last month watch this to learn exactly how the mission will end.

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