Saturday, December 30, 2006

Happy New Year everyone (2007)






Wow... another one has come and gone...

Amazing how life goes by fast. In the Bible, the book of James says this:

"...ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, for what is your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while…" James (4:14b)

Consequently, enjoy life in it's each respective moment and instant... and have fun...

Have a G R E A T 2007 !

Phil

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

The Rings of Saturn


Intriguing Texture
12.14.06

This close-up of the inner edge of the Cassini Division shows an enormous amount of structure (Rings of Saturn), including a grainy texture in the bright outer B ring material near the gap edge.
An extreme enhancement of the original image, presented at right, reveals the grainy region with greater clarity.

This view looks toward the lit side of the rings from about 54 degrees below the ringplane.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Nov. 8, 2006 at a distance of approximately 378,000 kilometers (235,000 miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 68 degrees. Image scale is 2 kilometers (1 mile) per pixel.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov . The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org .

Saturday, December 09, 2006

Happy Feet... a G R E A T movie...







This is one of the very good ones in my book. I LOVED "Happy Feet"...

You MUST see it...

In the great nation of Emperor Penguins, deep in Antarctica, you’re nobody unless you can sing-- which is unfortunate for Mumble, who is the worst singer in the world.

He is born dancing to his own tune -- tap dancing. Though Mumble’s mom, Norma Jean, thinks this little habit is cute, his dad, Memphis, says it “just ain’t penguin”...