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This viral image of Saturn isn’t real; it’s AI slop

Big Think·Ethan Siegel·about 2 months ago
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Back in 1997, a joint venture between NASA, ESA, and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) was launched with the explicit purpose of studying the most distant naked eye planet of the Solar System: Saturn. The Cassini-Huygens mission, unlike the predecessor missions that visited Saturn — Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, and Voyager 2 — wasn’t simply a fly-by mission, but rather flew to Saturn with the intention of remaining there. After a seven year journey to get there, Cassini arrived, where it had many close encounters with Saturn’s rings, a large number of Saturn’s moons, and of course, the planet itself. It didn’t just fly around Saturn, but rather above and below it as well, capturing views from 2004-2017 that maximized what we could learn about this prominent planet. One of the most surprising finds came early on in the mission, when the Cassini orbiter flew over the south pole of Saturn, and found something that had only ever been seen on Earth before: a hurricane with a well-defined eye wall to it.…

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