Friday, January 14, 2005
7 miles per pixel
I love pictures of space, I check out APOD each day. I can't help but be amazed by the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn. Today the Huygens Probe sent back the first pictures from Saturn's moon Titan, thats about 750 Million miles away (about 9 times as far as the Sun is). I love reading sentences like: "The image scale is about 11 kilometers (7 miles) per pixel."
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Check this out for some perspective: "A cosmic explosion just across the Milky Way from Earth gave off as much energy in one-tenth of a second as the sun does in 100,000 years..." Full story
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