I know I shouldn't be tearing up over an inanimate object, but godspeed you magnificent bastard.
[sp]Tbh, Cassini has been my favorite spacecraft and its a wonder its been operating like a boss all these years[/sp]
Theres going to be some amazing pictures, assuming it survives the dives...
The people who designed it and launched it came into my class two years ago to talk about it. You could tell how much the spacecraft means to them. It's an incredible piece of engineering.
That was way too well rendered.
Man sometimes I get sad that I wasn't born in a time where we are already colonizing planets and living in space, but then I remember awesome stuff like this. Humanities first foothold into space. This probe has provided so much information for us and generations for the future.
Whoever directed and rendered this whole thing did a fucking stellar job.
More emotions than Interstellar.
But really, what I like about space is that those pictures ain't just some stuff some CGI artist thought up, shit just looks amazing. The 1:58 shot is pretty obviously inspired by this Cassini photo:
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Saturn_eclipse.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=StrawberryClock;52061761]Whoever directed and rendered this whole thing did a fucking stellar job.[/QUOTE]
Erik Wernquist
Responsible for this masterpiece
[video]https://youtu.be/YH3c1QZzRK4[/video]
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;52061978]More emotions than Interstellar.
But really, what I like about space is that those pictures ain't just some stuff some CGI artist thought up, shit just looks amazing. The 1:58 shot is pretty obviously inspired by this Cassini photo:
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Saturn_eclipse.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
that backscatter off the rings illuminating the planet is [B]hot[/B]
Why the fuck am I crying
How does Jupiter's "surface" look like anyway? The render showed a pretty obvious transition between translucent atmosphere and opaque atmosphere, but isn't it supposed to be more of a hazy gassy mess where it's gradually getting harder to see the sky/anything the deeper you descend?
[QUOTE=damnatus;52062511]How does Jupiter's "surface" look like anyway? The render showed a pretty obvious transition between translucent atmosphere and opaque atmosphere, but isn't it supposed to be more of a hazy gassy mess where it's gradually getting harder to see the sky/anything the deeper you descend?[/QUOTE]
IIRC there isn't a solid surface, the atmosphere just gets denser the further you go in.
[QUOTE=Durrsly;52062533]IIRC there isn't a solid surface, the atmosphere just gets denser the further you go in.[/QUOTE]
That's what I think as well, but it looked pretty much like Earth but yellow-ish in the render
[QUOTE=Cmx;52060249]Theres going to be some amazing pictures, assuming it survives the dives...[/QUOTE]
If only it could slow down, so it would survive the atmosphere entrance, takes pictures deep down untill it get crushed by pressure.
[QUOTE=damnatus;52062698]That's what I think as well, but it looked pretty much like Earth but yellow-ish in the render[/QUOTE]
it's a blanket of cloud, not a physical surface
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