Saturn

duncan124: Ideas about Saturn.

Serabi: Yes...

duncan124:
Hexagon at the pole of Saturn.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/27/257625123/photo-saturns-holiday-closeup


A lot more info, including other pics of the hexagon, at;-

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/index.cfm

duncan124:

https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2014/12/25/christmas-on-saturn/

Kilometre high objects cast shadows on the rings of Saturn.

Several sites have these pictures from the summer of this year as Christmas cards.

Page2000: Satrun is the solar system's harmonic balance wheel. Saturn is also known to make music.

duncan124:
More moon madness.

Life on Titan could be like this.

http://astronomynow.com/2015/03/01/life-not-as-we-know-it-possible-on-saturns-moon-titan/

But it seems a weak idea to theorize on as no one has seen any life there!

duncan124:
Planetary.org has some interesting pictures and animations.

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/04031427-pretty-cassini-pictures-iapetus.html

duncan124:

Saturn at opposition.

"Tonight – May 22, 2015 – the ringed planet Saturn reaches opposition, a big milestone for our year of observing the ringed planet! Earth passes in between Saturn and the sun on May 23 at 0200 Universal Time." earthsky.

http://earthsky.org/tonight/saturn-closest-and-brightest-may-22

See also;-

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/watch-live-saturn-at-its-biggest-and-brightest-of-the-year/51446/

duncan124:
Saturn in earthquake prediction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-3RMS8S6a10

lori100: Saturn's moon Janus is oddly shaped and very porus...much like phobos---Mars moon....I wonder if Janus is fake as well...

lori100: Saturn moon Iapetus.....shows squashed areas, and ridges....odd colors and shape...no other moon found like it ...is it fake? ......-------------------A Moon with a View - Part One - The Enterprise Mission

www.enterprisemission.com/moon1.htm

Ahead of it now lay Iapetus, Hyperion, Titan, Rhea, Dione, Tethys, Enceladus, Mimas ... What Bowman discovers in the Saturn system – on an enigmatic moon called ..... suggestion in the 1980's, that “the brightness variations might be artificial.------------"on November 14, 1980 -- the NASA Voyager 1 unmanned spacecraft transmitted, from only a few hundred thousand miles away, the first clear image back to Earth showing that Cassini had been right! Remarkably, the entire “front half” of Iapetus was fully ten times darker than the “back half” – the former reflecting only about as much light as a piece of charcoal ----------Voyager acquired many images as it approached Iapetus for the first time. On some of them (below - left), a large (~ 150 mile diameter), dark, ring-shaped feature appeared on the side of the moon facing Saturn. In the center of the ring -- almost exactly as Arthur had described it before anyone could have seen it -- was an “elliptical white region … with a black center!” -------------The distant images immediately confirmed one curious impression left from the Voyager encounters of a quarter century before: in addition to its other unique characteristics, Iapetus does not seem to be a perfectly round moon!


A comparison with a real sphere (below-right) reveals that, from this angle, Iapetus is visibly “squashed” -- by something like 50 miles out of its 900, or about 5%. For solid rocky bodies larger than a few hundred miles across, the relentless force of gravity always overcomes the innate tensile strength of such materials, and forces them to assume a spherical geometry. For solid icy bodies (those possessing less tensile strength), the limiting size before a sphere is formed is even smaller.----------- Several of Saturn’s significantly smaller moons -- like Mimas and Enceladus -- although also icy objects, are spheres ….

Clearly, for some important reason Iapteus is not.

Now, look again at the left-hand image of Iapetus (above). What’s that “thing” ... sticking up twelve miles above the left-hand limb? According to NASA’s official description of this image, it reveals in 3-D--

… a long narrow ridge that lies almost exactly on the equator of Iapetus ….
-------------As is the presence of that baffling, arrow-straight, 12-mile-high (~60,000 foot!) “wall” -- which precisely bisects the leading hemisphere, and apparently crosses the entire width of this strangely darkened “Cassini Regio” … over 800 miles in length.-------In our opinion, Cassini’s discovery of “the Great Wall of Iapetus” now forces serious reconsideration of a range of staggering possibilities … that some will most certainly find … upsetting:

That, it could really be a “wall” … a vast, planet spanning, artificial construct!!----------In addition to Arthur’s well-known musings, the extreme albedo range displayed by Iapetus prompted a sober suggestion in the 1980’s, that “the brightness variations might be artificial.” Donald Goldsmith and Tobias Owen (the latter, the NASA discoverer of “the face on Mars!”) wrote of Iapetus in The Search for Life in the Universe (1980)----

This unusual moon is the only object in the Solar System which we might seriously regard as an alien signpost - a natural object deliberately modified by an advanced civilization to attract our attention [emphasis added] ….---------There is no viable geological model to explain a sixty thousand-foot-high, sixty thousand-foot-wide, four million-foot-long “wall” … spanning an entire planetary hemisphere … let alone, located in the precise plane of its equator!------------------It is a well-known cliché that “Nature doesn’t usually create straight lines.” If that is true, then it certainly doesn’t create three of them (close-up-below) – all running parallel, not only to each other, but to the literal equator of the planet.

“Nature” also doesn’t create a veritable “Maginot Line” of the geometric complexity and regularity seen here … certainly not one stretching horizontally, across this one small section of Iapetus, for over sixty miles ….------------Close-ups from other sections of this “transitional terrain” (just west of this image - below) reveal more of this astonishing, three-D “honeycombing.” Note the aligned edges of the hundreds of “square” holes in this image … and, again, more repeating, right-angle, uniform-width “walls.” Here, the repeating, rectilinear geometry appears to be “mantled” with a heavy “snowfall”

duncan124:

The moon seems to have ice caps as well.

http://www.enterprisemission.com/images_v2/Iapetus/Iapetus-Color-High-Res.jpg

duncan124:

Enthusiastic websites report an up tick in earthquakes corresponding to the recent planetary alignment.

"The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has raised the Volcanic Alert Level of Meakandake volcano to 2 of 5 (do not approach the volcano) on July 28, 2015. The last eruption of this volcano took place on November 28, 2008.

The decision to raise the alert level was made after a swarm of shallow volcanic earthquakes started under the Ponmachineshiri crater on July 27."The watchers.

Even Etna began to smoke