Saturday, March 3, 2007

FOUND POEM - NASA Describes Saturn


Surely one of the most
gorgeous sights
the solar system has to offer,
Saturn sits enveloped
by the full
splendor
of
its
stately
rings...

...Between the blinding
light of day
and the dark of night,
there is a strip
of twilight
on the globe where
colorful
details
in the atmosphere can be seen.
Bright clouds dot
the bluish-grey
northern polar region here.
In the south,
the planet's night side
glows golden in
reflected light
from
the
rings'
sunlit
face.

Saturn's shadow stretches completely across the rings in this view, taken on Jan. 19, 2007, in contrast to what Cassini saw when it arrived in 2004 (see PIA05429) Courtesy of NASA / JPL / Cassini Telescope-Camera

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