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Saturn Seen from Enceledus, Beyond Jupiter- The Worlds of Tomorrow book illustration, 1972 by Chesley Bonestell
So I needed audio files of the 8 planets and Pluto for science reasons. Most of the planets emit flat, base-y, earth tone type sounds. Some have clicking sounds, but not out of the ordinary. Then… Then I get to the Saturn file. The noise Saturn makes can best be described as the distant screams of souls burning in hell. I’m serious. I’ve concluded that somewhere in the gaseous fogs of saturn is where Hell resides.
The last Saturn V rocket launches the Skylab space station, 14 May, 1973, while the rocket that will launch its first crew, Skylab 2, is in the foreground.
Earth is not the only planet in our solar system with auroras. As the solar wind—a stream of rarefied plasma from our sun—blows through the solar system, it interacts with the magnetic fields of other planets as well as our own. Saturn’s magnetic field second only to Jupiter’s in strength. This strong magnetosphere deflects many of the solar wind’s energetic particles, but, as on Earth, some of the particles get drawn in along Saturn’s magnetic field lines. These lines converge at the poles, where the high-energy particles interact with the gases in the upper reaches of Saturn’s atmosphere. As a result, Saturn, like Earth, has impressive and colorful light displays around its poles. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser & L. Calçada, source video; via spaceplasma)
My beautiful baby boy Saturn
SATURN 🪐
breadedtilapia-deactivated20210 asked:
im too short to be an astronaut
Why isn’t anybody on my dash, like, super pumped about the Orion launch this morning? This ship is built to go farther than any manned ship ever built before. This is the ship that takes humans to deep space. This is the ship that takes humans to Mars. It had its test launch this morning and its kind of a big deal because this is the ship that’s gonna bring in a new era of space travel. Welcome to the Mars age.
Space Dog, Alan Shapiro | From Wikipedia | Laika, Sarah Doyle | Space Patterns Painting, Katya Garipova | Laika, Ben Florin | Constellations, The Oh Hellos | First Dog in Space, Brennig Davies | Are You Scared Yet, Laika?, Gus Gresham | Pillars of Creation, James Webb Telescope | space dog., Basil Sai | Icarus, The Crane Wives | Quote via. Oleg Gazenko
