Starship Asterisk*

Looks like a bird to me.

Ditto instond's remark.

abc wrote:I think APOD is great and I turned it into my browser home page, so every morning I start with a new picture.

All the best,

Yosef

Me too!

BikerMike

Oh Lordy! I spoke to soon!

With thanks to INDIGO_SUNRISE!

What??!! No moronic discussion that petroglyphs do not belong on APOD? Goodness, gracious me, the carpers must have gone off to another galaxy! Good riddance!

Was there supposed to be a commercial pop up ad for Qatar Airways in the video? The really annoying thing is that it blocked out the text of where Matt was dancing.

Ditto for Bob Jopson's post.

iRon wrote:2011 ***NEWS FLASH*** Hal Finally Opens the Pod Bay Doors... Over the Bahamas!

Bril! Thanks for the laugh.

Perhaps Mr Zorg be given the responsibility of providing a brand new APOD photo everyday with the proviso that he be hung, drawn and quartered if he fails.

Better late than never!

Now, I may be blind in one eye and can't see out of the other but I can't see anything that would indicate a definitive land mass. So I'm going to take a WAG and say it's the southern Pacific Ocean with the possibility of the Antarctic in the lower left corner. Probably nowhere near there. :facepal...

Cool photo. Does bring to mind a question: Cassini has all these scheduled flybys... Is NASA actively controlling its flight path using stored fuel, or have they just planned SO far ahead with orbit insertion (and done it with SUCH precision) that the trajectory (including all these scheduled flyby...

HankB, Wouldn't that be kind of cheating?

Now, I may be blind in one eye and can't see out of the other but I can't see anything that would indicate a definitive land mass. So I'm going to take a WAG and say it's the southern Pacific Ocean with the possibility of the Antarctic in the lower left corner. Probably nowhere near there. :facepalm:

Is it my imagination or does that moon look transparent? I'm assuming the speckled look is because it is an unprocessed photo.

On second thought, could it be reflective?

It would appear to me from the angle that the adjoining balcony is viewed and the concrete wall that can be seen in the left of http://apod.nasa.gov/image/0908/IMG_9802.JPG that Noemi is standing inside the building taking the photos at an oblique angle (As Heiko, guessing close to 45 degrees.) to t...