Images of Saturn from Celestia

If I was required to pick one object in outer space which seems, more than any other, to showcase God's skill and sense of beauty, I think I would choose Saturn.  I hope to explore soon more of the wonders of this incredible planet, but in the meantime I will simply provide a few images.

These are screen shots I took using Celestia and the Xfce screen shot plug-in. Celestia is an open-source 3D space simulator which, by the way, is freely available for download from http://www.shatters.net/celestia/download.html.

Here are three full shots of Saturn and its rings:

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Here is Saturn from the perspective of far-off Titan:

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And here is Saturn with the orbits of some of its satellites plotted:

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If you have any fascination whatsoever with the complexity and beauty of the created universe, I strongly recommend you either buy or borrow a copy of the book Cosmos, from Duncan Baird Publishers, which is 320 pages long and filled front to back with some of the most amazing images of outer space which I have ever seen.