#cassini division

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Spaceprobe Cassini's last images

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Cassini Science: Ring Propellors

Cassini Science: Ring Propellors

As I was watching the grand finale of Cassini and listening to the mission team talk about the accomplishments of the mission, I learned a little bit about propellors.  Not your typical airplane propellor, but the name used to describe this fascinating feature in Saturn’s rings.

A propellor named ‘Earhart.’ Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Seeing Saturn’s rings from afar, or…

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Saturn: Crash Course Astronomy #18

Saturn: Crash Course Astronomy #18

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Cover art by Mark Salwowski for The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod.

I haven't read the book, but I can assume it's about this space ship robot thing using pink lasers to cut a big gap into Saturn's rings.

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Book Review: The Stone Canal by Ken MacLeod

Book Review: The Stone Canal by Ken MacLeod

This review was originally written in September 2000. I am reposting it here as part of a project to republish all of my old reviews in one place.

This is the second Ken MacLeod book I’ve read. Its part of a sequence of books, all of which share the same universe and explore certain political ideas. The Stone Canal also has particularly close links with the follow up book The Cassini Division(whi…

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Free Falling Divisions

Giovanni Domenico Cassini born today, June 8th, in 1625.  Also known as Jean-Dominique Cassini when he was in residence at the Paris Observatory where he discovered the feature to be known as The Cassini Division.

Mmm, stripey...