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¡Damned!
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
 
2017-04-28, 09:54

I forget where I read this, but during these final flybys Cassini is so close to Saturn and going so fast that it's impossible for it to get a color photo (!). Apparently the 20-year-old kit has to switch between its Red, Green and Blue filters for us to create a final combined color photo, and it's going too fast to focus on one point long enough. Thought that was a neat bit of info.

Imagine the photos we'll be getting from Europa in a decade even with the cellphone camera tech we have now. Amazing.

So it goes.
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