White and Wild by wilshire|onePale Blue Dot
“In the shadow of Saturn, unexpected wonders appear. The robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn recently drifted in giant planet’s shadow for about 12 hours and looked back toward the eclipsed Sun. Cassini saw a view unlike any other. First, the night side of Saturn is seen to be partly lit by light reflected from its own majestic ring system. Next, the rings themselves appear dark when silhouetted against Saturn, but quite bright when viewed away from Saturn and slightly scattering sunlight, in the above exaggerated color image. Saturn’s rings light up so much that new rings were discovered, although they are hard to see in the above image. Visible in spectacular detail, however, is Saturn’s E ring, the ring created by the newly discovered ice-fountains of the moon Enceladus, and the outermost ring visible above. Far in the distance, visible on the image left just above the bright main rings, is the almost ignorable pale blue dot of Earth.”
It’s beautiful isn’t it … and seeing ourselves there in the distance through Saturn’s rings – awesome. Wishing you a hopeful Samhain – not that we may know “what” we hope for … and best that we don’t try to know “what”, because it would be for the wrong thing ( as some poet once said). ... but trusting the dark creative process.
Glenys
Rob
Taffy and I recently enjoyed this … a link fro the Global Mind shift site, which is going very well.I am submitting PaGaian Cosmology as a meme there – if I can figure out the technical problems I am having doing so.
Here is the Carl Sagan story
http://www.amnh.org/podcast/snc/?src=p_h
Blissings
Glenys Livingstone | Dec 7, 08:35 am | #