Posted 4/21/2009 05:16:00 PM by Douglas

Stunning pictures from the Cassini probe of Saturn. But that's not what got my attention about this site. Read the captions. Are they written by unemployed romance novelists?

Cassini peers through Saturn's delicate, translucent inner C ring to see the diffuse yellow-blue limb of Saturn's atmosphere.

Prometheus (86 km/53 mi wide) just touches the inner edge of Saturn's F ring at right, and is followed by a series of dark channels in the ring.

Prometheus is just about to pass behind the planet, and a faint streamer of ring material lies below and to the right of Prometheus (86 km/53 mi wide), in the faint, inner strand of the F ring.

The mutual gravity between particles may pull them into clumps as they are periodically forced closely together by the action of Mimas.

The terminator engulfs Penelope (foreground), one of the largest craters on Saturn's moon, Tethys

Half an hour after Prometheus tore into Saturn's F ring, Cassini snapped this image just as the moon was creating a new streamer in the ring.

Half an hour? Really? I guess some planets are quick to recover.