Voyager we salute you!

A lot further away. And I have no doubt that someone either has or can do the calculations…

Voyager

And don’t forget the American taxpayer who paid for them! 😀

Thanks.
BTW, Voyager 1 (AU 117.706) and Pioneer 10 (AU 103.783) are the furthest man made objects in space, I wonder were they will be in a billion years time?

Indeed the two Voyager probes are two of mankind’s greatest creations in my opinion. I’d also like to give props to the Hubble Space Telescope….

And don’t forget the American taxpayer who paid for them! 😀

Indeed the two Voyager probes are two of mankind’s greatest creations in my opinion. The longevity of the two is just astounding!

I’d also like to give props to the Hubble Space Telescope…some truly remarkable images have been beamed back from it as well. Here’s hoping it continues to provide great images until 2014-15 when it supposedly will be deactivated.

Maybe Lord Lucan took the photo from the moon where he’s been hiding for the last 2-3 decades

Now… of course as we all know… no man has ever been to the moon! the physics of man going beyond the Earth make it impossible (We havent had the ability to launch a spacecraft with 100meter thick lead walls to save a human from the radiation yet) So i doubt thats where Lord Lucan is.:dev2:
just saying :eek::dev2::dev2:

I quite agree – a deserved salute!:) Trust the forum to start picking holes in the images…..;);)

I was just being facetious 😉

Pagen, remarkable images indeed. I loved the one this week of Endeavour attached to the ISS. Wonderful images.

An example of the remarkable things man can do when he puts his mind to it.

That’s funny, I thought Saturn was round (or spherical), the shadow seems to be a straight line? Maybe Lord Lucan took the photo from the moon where he’s been hiding for the last 2-3 decades 😀 (conspiracy theorists will make hay)

No, depends on the suns position, think about the physics, the widest part of the planet and its shadow is cast across a flat disc, any sort of thickness in the rings (from that distance!) is an optical illusion. Try it with a record, halved tennis ball, and a strong lamp if you have time on your hands!
Think like Earth, long shadows in winter, short ones in the summer, and don’t forget that Earth casts a shadow big enough to fall across our moon.
Even with a smaller and curved shadow the same effect could be seen, due to angles and perspective from where the image is taken.

This is a pic taken by the Cassini missions in Jan ’07

Don’t encourage them Deano!:rolleyes:

Pretty good going when you think about it, especially when you consider what BL was churning out back then.

It seems that space exploration is suffering a tad due to budget choppage, where are all the space stations & moon bases that Arthur promised us by 2001.

I blame it on the Berlin Wall coming down (as I do most things )

I quite agree – a deserved salute!:) Trust the forum to start picking holes in the images…..;);)

Thats the reason why I didnt realise it was a shadow, Deano. I was expecting a curve to be there.

That’s funny, I thought Saturn was round (or spherical), the shadow seems to be a straight line? Maybe Lord Lucan took the photo from the moon where he’s been hiding for the last 2-3 decades 😀 (conspiracy theorists will make hay)

Ahh is that what that is? 🙂 Thankyou kindly for clarifying it for me 🙂

I think you’re referring to the shadow of the planet itself being cast across the rings system.

In that first shot of saturn, what is the ring disappearing behind on the right side? It doesnt appear to be disappearing behind the planet itself.