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1974 Ray Feibush cover art to Isaac Asimov’s The Rings of Saturn
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“Saturn devouring his child.” From A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art by Thomas Wright, 1875.
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The planet Saturn, illustrated in Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio, a 1672 work by Otto von Guericke.
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Fig. 108. Nineteenth century artist’s conception of Saturn, seen from “the ring.” The heavens, an illustrated handbook of popular astronomy. 1867.
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A detail from an astronomical diagram, 1892, published by Appleton & Co.
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot may get most of the attention, but it's hardly the only big weather event in the Solar System. Saturn, for example, has an odd hexagonal pattern in the clouds at its north pole, and when the planet tilted enough to illuminate it, the light revealed a giant hurricane embedded in the center of the hexagon. Scientists think the immense storm may have been there for years...
Source: Ars Technica
Mimas Transits Saturn’s Ring Shadows, Cassini, January 18, 2005, 2012. Courtesy of Michael Benson
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If there's one thing better than a new Ben Heck mod, it's seeing something his army of apprentices hascooked up. This time, Turkish modder c_mon has produced a striking wooden Sega Saturn laptop. It's got a 5-inch LCD screen pulled from a Sony PSOne in the lid, built-in speakers and a fan to keep things cool in the enclosure. The case copies the mould lines from the original Saturn, with the natty addition of an electroluminescent wire that puts us in mind of Tron when the device is running. Keen-eyed visitors to our gallery below will notice that the laptop's lid actually bears the logo of Saturn automobiles -- it's deliberate as the modder couldn't get his CNC (Computer Numerical Control) cutter to play nicely with Sega's curved logo. Incorrect marque or not, we can all agree it's much more handsome than previous efforts.
Source: Engadget