what do people think of these strange images on the nasa site that have been taken a couple of months ago by the cassini mission..??

interesing...no real info accompanying them as they are raw..the first could be the suns refelection i suppose....well they look nice anyway..probably nothin

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=80086

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=76730

The first pic looks like a reflection of the sun,but the second pic i dont know it kinda looks fake whatever it is

Why would NASA post a fake picture on their own website?

stars?

Im starting to think maybe its an over exposed shot of one of the moons that has had a camera shift or something mid way through exposure..certainly not FAKE though!..its on the offical site..however these are un processed images..

only reason i put these up was because some looney alien site had a link to these saying they confirmed his story of 20 years that a large alien craft was orbiting saturn ..the images are 100 % legit..perhaps they are just mis identified though..here is the site if you want a laugh:


http://www.thecomingoftan.com/

That's exactly what it is. From time to time Cassini takes images of the stars to aid navigation. Notice that ehb background stars are exposed correctly and are not motion blurred. The caption with the picture says that the moon is Tethys.

very true..the exposure needed for the stars would be much too great for the moon and would probably cause this..the hilarious thing though is that the silly (alien) site seems to think because its so bright that it cannot be a moon!

the second one is nothing more than a light reflection problem...

things in our galaxy can look weird through a telescope...

for instance:

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/nebula.../pr1995045c/web

this image is a photo of a Nebula side on. Its just a dust cloud.....but it could easily be mistaken for a UFO.

The first one looks like a messiah-version of Barbapapa.

If you look at some of the other images about half way down the page on http://www.thecomingoftan.com/illuminated~...ted~object.html you can see that the "mothership spoken of in The Coming of Tan" looks like it is definitely moving.

But if you look at some of the other bright objects - whatever they are - that are much smaller you can see that a great number of these are also blurred suggesting movement. Maybe these are the "alien saturn sight seeing pleasure tours spoken of in The Coming of Tan"?

If you look at the Cassini Image # 00007453.jpg image in particular you can see many small objects of the same brightness and there is a large one towards the bottom left.

Let's see what NASA says when it validates / calibrates in 2007.

Tell ya what I'm thinking, that is SOOOOOOO not an UFO.

Its a glowing space-pear!

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/


http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/videos/index.cfm


http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=2058

Lots of interesting stuff on these sites...thanks..!!!



The moon with the split personality, Iapetus, presents a puzzling appearance. One hemisphere of the moon is very dark, while the other is very bright. Whether the moon is being coated by foreign material, or being resurfaced by material from within is not yet known.

At 1436 kilometers (892 miles across), Iapetus is about 2.5 times smaller than our own Moon.

The brightness variations in this image are real. The face of Iapetus visible here was observed at a Sun-Iapetus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of about 10 degrees.

The image was taken in visible light with the narrow angle camera on July 3, 2004, from a distance of 3 million kilometers (1.8 million miles) from Iapetus. The image scale is 18 kilometers (11 miles) per pixel. The image was magnified by a factor of two to aid visibility.

http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=262

Wow!!! It just looks like our moon!!!