Why is Saturn shadowed? Shouldn’t we always be seeing the sunlit side of Saturn?
Edit: the picture was taken by the Cassini spacecraft
Underwater_Karma on
These are very low resolution photos
Kind-Truck3753 on
Saturn didn’t warrant a place in your post title? What’d Saturn ever do to you?!
aHumanRaisedByHumans on
We had a photo of Jupiter in 1879?!!!
residentfan02 on
The size of the red spot was so big back then.
laserdiods on
To be fair we have taken some pretty nice pics of Jupiter 20 years ago too
mack2night on
Does this mean the first photo? It was through a telescope long before 1879.
Jump_Like_A_Willys on
Maybe first photo of Jupiter, but not our first view.
And the view of it in 1879 was likely much better than that photo
chileangod on
The red dot might seem to be a goner in my lifetime.Â
Zvenigora on
Jupiter’s equatorial belt appears dark in the old photo, perhaps due to the UV sensitivity of the old plate emulsions.
bdtechted on
Those first views were from telescopes here on Earth and not when the Voyager probes first arrived right?
dollarstoresim on
Gonna say the first view by ancient Chinese or babylonian astronomers was probably a tiny light in the sky.
ScorchedByTheSun on
I haven’t checked everything here, but that Saturn image on the right is not recent. It appears to be from Cassini, a mission that ended 9 years ago. I think the Jupiter image is likely also from Cassini.
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Why is Saturn shadowed? Shouldn’t we always be seeing the sunlit side of Saturn?
Edit: the picture was taken by the Cassini spacecraft
These are very low resolution photos
Saturn didn’t warrant a place in your post title? What’d Saturn ever do to you?!
We had a photo of Jupiter in 1879?!!!
The size of the red spot was so big back then.
To be fair we have taken some pretty nice pics of Jupiter 20 years ago too
Does this mean the first photo? It was through a telescope long before 1879.
Maybe first photo of Jupiter, but not our first view.
And the view of it in 1879 was likely much better than that photo
The red dot might seem to be a goner in my lifetime.Â
Jupiter’s equatorial belt appears dark in the old photo, perhaps due to the UV sensitivity of the old plate emulsions.
Those first views were from telescopes here on Earth and not when the Voyager probes first arrived right?
Gonna say the first view by ancient Chinese or babylonian astronomers was probably a tiny light in the sky.
I haven’t checked everything here, but that Saturn image on the right is not recent. It appears to be from Cassini, a mission that ended 9 years ago. I think the Jupiter image is likely also from Cassini.