Video: First Ever Movie of Saturn’s Incredible Aruroras in Action!

Hey guys and gals, more amazing footage to share with you!

Video: Saturn’s Spectacular Aurora in Action

How can you not love Cassini? The latest treat NASA’s spacecraft has provided us is the first ever movie of Saturn’s incredible aruroras.

The high-resolution video was assembled from 472 still images, spaced over 81 hours in October, that show the phenomenon in three dimensions. The lights can be seen as a rippling, vertical sheet up to 750 miles high above Saturn’s northern hemisphere.

“The auroras have put on a dazzling show, shape-shifting rapidly and exposing curtains that we suspected were there, but hadn’t seen on Saturn before,” Cal Tech scientist Andrew Ingersoll, a member of the Cassini imaging team that processed the new video, said in a press release. “Seeing these things on another planet helps us understand them a little better when we see them on Earth.”

Honestly, I find this video truly amazing and quite frankly eerie but beautiful!
In this YouTube video a NASA scientist explains what's going on:



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I'd lank to thank member lagenese for recording and uploading the ATS media video, as my ISP needs to be sacked in the morning!

Thanks mate!






[edit on 24-11-2009 by kiwifoot]

Very nice find, as usual! S&F for this!
Space exploration is still at a very young age, but we are from the stars, and we will return to the stars, it's only a question of time!
Thanks for this link, it's a very nice vid showing that aurora.

Originally posted by lagenese
Very nice find, as usual! S&F for this!
Space exploration is still at a very young age, but we are from the stars, and we will return to the stars, it's only a question of time!
Thanks for this link, it's a very nice vid showing that aurora.

Cheers mate, I'm struggling to upload the video, as I have restricted bandwidth (another thread another day lol!)

As soon as I can it I will!

All the best kiwifoot!

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Want me to do it... I have unlimited bandwith (16mb connection)
Just let me know, i'll be happy to help.

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Thanks mate, I really appreciate you doing that for me!

You did well, I hope viewers can appreciate it more in the OP (if they're too lazy to click the link like me!)

All the best mate!

Kiwifoot!

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I sent you a u2u with new link. Please edit your post.
I sure would love to find more videos like this, it is really interesting!!

Originally posted by lagenese
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I sent you a u2u with new link. Please edit your post.
I sure would love to find more videos like this, it is really interesting!!

There's always someone on ATS who is scouring the web looking for this kind of stuff, that's what makes is a great site.....10,000 pairs of eyes bringing the best stories all to one place!

All the best, kiwifoot

[edit on 25-11-2009 by kiwifoot]

That is an amazing video.

*S&F*

The solar system is a great place to discover new things everyday.
There is so much we don't know about space and videos like these are an excellent way of proving that.

Damn! Andy INgersoll is still around? I thought he retired already..nto knocking him, think he's a cool guy...last time i saw him, was way back in 1989.. i was 14 and watching and recording voyager 2 at Neptune, on CNN.

I'm going to give this a bump because I think that any members that didn't catch it deserve a second chance!

Enjoy ATS!

All the best, Kiwifoot