Early Saturday morning eye candy (Enceladus up very close)

krispos42

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Sat Oct-25-08 02:25 AM
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Early Saturday morning eye candy (Enceladus up very close)

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/enceladus_up_close.html

The Globe just lays out the pics like the regular Friday Night Eye Candy post by n2doc.

Samples:

One pixel equals a mere 33 feet!!!

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Lucian

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Sat Oct-25-08 02:41 AM
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1. Awesome!

I love these pics!

Did you see today's APOD?: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ That's the first website I visit everyday. I love it.

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navarth

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Sat Oct-25-08 02:51 AM
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2. Thanks for that link!!

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Lucian

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Sat Oct-25-08 02:55 AM
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3. No problem.

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Peace Patriot

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Sat Oct-25-08 04:28 AM
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4. Astounding!

Isn't Enceladus one of the best candidates for life elsewhere in our Solar System?

Can you imagine waking up to SATURN on the horizon every morning?

Would their ideas of God be BIGGER?

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Peace Patriot

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Sat Oct-25-08 04:43 AM
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5. To answer my own question...

"The combination of a hydrological cycle, chemical redox gradient and geochemical cycle give favorable conditions for life on Enceladus. To our knowledge, these conditions are not duplicated anywhere else in our solar system except our planet. Compared to Mars, Titan and Europa, Enceledus is the only other object in our solar system that appears to satisfy the conditions for maintaining life at present, even if the ability of life to evolve there is uncertain."
http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=1681

And...

http://www.physorg.com/news6237.html
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/jpl/news/cassinif-20080326.html

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northofdenali

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Sat Oct-25-08 05:08 AM
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6. This is one of the few photos that have inspired me to say

OMG!!!

K&R

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amyrose2712

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Sat Oct-25-08 09:03 AM
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7. SWEET! nt

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glitch

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Sat Oct-25-08 12:01 PM
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8. Incredible! Thanks for posting.

And Comment 15. "Great. Now the Empire knows the location of the secret rebel base."

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