What a sight to see in person

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<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Maybe in my lifetime?http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1202.html <br />Posted by BrianSlee</DIV><br /><br />Certainly the most unique picture ever captured of one of the planets of our solar system :) </p><p>I'd say it makes a good addition to anyone's desktop! </p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><strong><font color="#ff0000">Techies: We do it in the dark. </font></strong></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>"Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.</strong><strong>" -Albert Einstein </strong></font></p> </div>
 
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<p>Images of earth from far away, are some of my favorite wallpaper & screen saver choices.</p><p>The APOD archive, has many images of earth from far away. </p><p>http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Of course my favorite, is voyager's image of earth, dubbed "The Pale Blue Dot",&nbsp; and it&nbsp;even made space.com's </p><p>"<strong><font color="#1b4872">Top 10 Space Science Photos</font></strong>" </p><p>http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/top10_images_010925-11.html</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>fgl</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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<p><br /><br /><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Maybe in my lifetime?http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1202.html <br />Posted by BrianSlee</DIV></p><p>Nice dream, and wonderful if achieved, but a long shot.&nbsp; Just getting the vehicle and instrumentation that took those images to Saturn was a major undertaking, and a long journey through the solar system, with some gravitatinal assistance.&nbsp; But participating in that launch and seeing it go in the wee hours of the morning was a highlight of my career, even staying earthbound.</p><p><img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/4/12/a427b502-59c3-4686-8c12-a8917bd51ee5.Medium.gif" alt="" /><br /></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Nice dream, and wonderful if achieved, but a long shot.&nbsp; Just getting the vehicle and instrumentation that took those images to Saturn was a major undertaking, and a long journey through the solar system, with some gravitatinal assistance.&nbsp; But participating in that launch and seeing it go in the wee hours of the morning was a highlight of my career, even staying earthbound. <br />Posted by DrRocket</DIV><br /><br />A true achievement for humanity.&nbsp;&nbsp;You and the whole team deserve much credit for the accomplishment.&nbsp; As far as me getting there being a long shot....well, it's the only shot I got, so I may as well buy a lotto ticket, and keep watching the numbers as they come up.&nbsp; Somebody has to win eventually&nbsp;;O)&nbsp;</p><p>Theres an idea for raising money for space.&nbsp; Run a lottery the winner gets a ride to ISS and the profits go back into the space program.&nbsp; </p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p>"I am therefore I think" </p><p>"The only thing "I HAVE TO DO!!" is die, in everything else I have freewill" Brian P. Slee</p> </div>
 
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<font size="2"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'">Earlier to the Big Bang, a&nbsp;core of dense and hot material existed in space. Can we call it a vacant universe containing this explodable material which gave birth to the galaxies, stars, planets and asteroids?&nbsp; In case of the response being affirmative, we are led to&nbsp;believe that universe existed even before the Big Bang.</span></font> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Earlier to the Big Bang, a&nbsp;core of dense and hot material existed in space. Can we call it a vacant universe containing this explodable material which gave birth to the galaxies, stars, planets and asteroids?&nbsp; In case of the response being affirmative, we are led to&nbsp;believe that universe existed even before the Big Bang. <br />Posted by jewur</DIV><br /><br />That is not the subject of this thread. This is dicussing sights into or from space.</p><p>Please try and post in a thread related to the subject you want to discuss.</p><p>Thanx, and welcome to Space.com</p><p>Wayne</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>
 
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<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'><font color="#ff0000">Nice dream, and wonderful if achieved, but a long shot.&nbsp; Just getting the vehicle and instrumentation that took those images to Saturn was a major undertaking, and a long journey through the solar system, with some gravitatinal assistance.&nbsp; But participating in that launch and seeing it go in the wee hours of the morning was a highlight of my career, even staying earthbound. <br /> Posted by DrRocket</font></DIV></p><p><strong><font size="2" color="#000000">Absolutely DrRocket. </font></strong></p><p><strong><font size="2" color="#000000">That was an incredible launch & also was so accurately executed, that far less propellant had to be used by Cassini during interplanetary cruise for course corrections that Cassini has been able to execute an vastly extended mission at Saturn.&nbsp;</font></strong></p><p><font size="2"><strong>How's this, the crop showing the Earth, within the backlit rings of Saturn.</strong></font><br /> <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/7/10/f77d20e9-35da-44b4-8a6f-3c3e821ab2e8.Medium.jpg" alt="" /><br />&nbsp;</p><p>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'><font color="#ff0000">This is one of my favs. What I wouldn't give to see this view leaving then returning. <br /> Posted by boris1961</font></DIV></p><p><font size="2"><strong>Hi Boris, I agree, that one too is high up on my list of faves also.</strong></font></p><p><strong><font size="2">How's this, the Earth as the Morning Star, as seen from Gusev Crater, on Mars by MER A Spirit?</font></strong><br /> <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/12/14/dc971334-5462-4689-aeda-d0edb7162dd1.Medium.jpg" alt="" /><br />&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2"><strong>Phobos occulting the Sun as seen by MER B Oppotunity.</strong></font><br /> <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/4/11/c409e688-70af-410f-8b54-20efcabcaef7.Medium.jpg" alt="" /></p><p><strong><font size="2">Or this? Volcanic Io in front of Jupiter. </font></strong><br /> <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/14/0/3e5836aa-318e-4591-a0ff-6910cc7a9912.Medium.jpg" alt="" />&nbsp;<br /><font size="2"><strong><br />Andrew Brown.&nbsp;</strong></font></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>
 
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<p>You're right, BrianSlee: that would be an amazing sight to see in person!&nbsp; <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-cool.gif" border="0" alt="Cool" title="Cool" /></p><p>And to the poster that said it'd make a nice desktop:&nbsp;in fact, I have it as&nbsp;<em>my</em> desktop.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-wink.gif" border="0" alt="Wink" title="Wink" />&nbsp;&nbsp; Great minds and all that....</p><p>And those are some good images too, Andrew!&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p> </p> </div>
 
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