Rest in Peace Joe Paterno

Penn State’s University Football coach died today. He was 85. A philanthropist in his actions, and ignorant of how to handle pederasty and it’s effect on his university, tainted his departure. The students mourn.

NASA Image of the Day

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Closest Dione Flyby

Closest Dione Flyby
Flying past Saturn’s moon Dione, Cassini captured this view which includes two smaller moons, Epimetheus and Prometheus, near the planet’s rings.

The image was taken in visible light with Cassini’s narrow-angle camera during the spacecraft’s flyby of Dione on Dec. 12, 2011. This encounter was the spacecraft’s closest pass of the moon’s surface, but, because this flyby was intended primarily for other Cassini instruments, it did not yield Cassini’s best images of the moon. Higher resolution images were obtained during earlier flybys (see PIA07638).

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