Blue Skies on Saturn
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“NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has discovered another world with blue skies: Saturn.
Fast forward 100 years: You’re an astronaut piloting an airplane in the upper atmosphere of Saturn. The gas giant has no solid surface to walk on and no seas to put a boat in. Exploring Saturn means flying, dipping in and out of strangely-colored clouds, racing through ring shadows. It’s a totally alien world.
It’s so alien that you start to feel homesick. So you do what they taught you in astronaut training. Take a deep breath, look up at the sunny blue sky and pretend to be back on Earth. Works every time!
Sunny blue skies … on Saturn? It’s true. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft discovered them in 2005.”
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