Nine years ago today my colleagues and i shot what likely remains the highest resolution ground based image of Saturn ever taken.
We used the 1m F/17 Cassegrain telescope at Pic du Midi Observatory nestled almost 10,000ft altitude in the French Pyrenees.
Many rarely seen details were captured, such as the multiple fine ringlets within the C-ring. The narrow Encke division was captured around the entire ring system. This division is only 200 miles wide spanning less than 0.1 arc seconds in angular width.
Atop the globe of the planet the famous hexagon shaped feature is clearly seen - a fast moving jet stream that encircles the polar region.
Saturn's rings will not appear this open again until 2031 - perhaps by which time an even better ground based image will have been taken!
I want to explain the difference between JD Vance and Timmy Walz.
Vance was in combat. He served in al Anbar Province at the height of the Iraq insurgency, and every American there at that time was in imminent danger of death or dismemberment from IEDs, 107mm rockets and 82mm mortars. Nevertheless, Vance said in his book that he never saw combat. This was because he thought that saying he was (even though he WAS) would dishonor the Marines who were in firefights daily with the enemy. He was being modest.
Walz, OTOH, not only never saw combat, he RAN from combat, and then he bragged about his non-existent combat experience.
That right there says all anyone needs to know about the character and morals of these two men.
@TankaByBill@CynicalPublius He served 24 years in the national guard and that sickens you? He RETIRED months before his unit was deployed.
Yet I don't hear you talking about Captain Bonespurs
@CynicalPublius@MattWalshBlog Voting for Captain Bonespurs, I see. You carefully avoided the whole Trump dodging the draft the way the rich do: with a fraudulent doctor's note.....
@MattWalshBlog Ummm, there's a place called Sudbury in Ontario that is a testament to acid rain and what it took to solve it. Acid rain formed the whole area into a moonscape. You really don't do any research before posting stuff, do you? First the ozone layer, then this?
Remember when they spent years telling us to panic over the hole in the ozone layer and then suddenly just stopped talking about it and nobody ever mentioned the ozone layer again?