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That's exactly what I was wondering! It's such an odd choice to compare it to as I'm having trouble finding an exact number. This article mentions that it's a s
by BinaryIdiot 9y ago
That's exactly what I was wondering! It's such an odd choice to compare it to as I'm having trouble finding an exact number. This article mentions that it's a small amount of ice but not exactly helpful for a scale: https://www.universetoday.com/15374/is-there-water-on-saturn/ https://www.universetoday.com/15374/is-there-water-on-saturn...
- ASalazarMX 9y agoSo there's little water on Saturn! but wait, since Saturn is about 300 times the size of earth, and Earth's mass is just 1/4000th water, I'm still utterly confused as how much it is compared to us. Odd choice, indeed.
- TheSpiceIsLife 9y agoSaturn is big! And it looks blue! Must be a lot!
- dclowd9901 9y agoSaturn looks blue? https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA00400 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA00400
- TheSpiceIsLife 9y agoOops, I was thinking of Uranus! What hope!
- lostmsu 9y agoMaybe Neptune? Would make more sense.
- BinaryIdiot 9y agoProbably thinking Earth
- TheSpiceIsLife 9y agoYes, that’s the one! I don’t know, Outer Planets all look the same to me.
- lostmsu 9y agoOh, c'mon, they are named after specific Gods after all.
- sidcool 9y agoSilly, but this always cracks me up.
- pluma 9y agoWhat blows my mind is that Saturn in that image looks almost exactly like it does in the intro to Star Trek The Next Generation, which I always chalked up as bad CGI.
- dclowd9901 9y agoTry seeing it through a powerful eyepiece telescope. It’s absolutely one of the most astonishing experiences I’ve ever had.
- rbanffy 9y agoConsider this image is from Voyager. Cassini captured much higher resolution ones.
- pluma 9y agoHigher res maybe, but it still looks amazingly fake: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/7549/?category=amateur-images https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/7549/?category=amateur... I guess what's messing with me is that it just looks so smooth, which life-long exposure to CGI has taught me to mean that it's fake. This reminds me of what Elon Musk said about his Tesla in space: you can tell it's real because it looks so fake.