April
2, 2005
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL
This image is of Iapetus, one of
Saturn's moons. It was taken by Cassini during a flyby on New Year's
Eve 2004. Now NASA says that what appears to me to be Rods flying
past Iapetus is really
Star's being smeared. After I spent long hours and many days
looking at this image, examining the apparent Stars in the
background and seeing how close the Rods are to Iapetus, I believe
these are not smeared Stars but actually Rods caught on camera
flying past Iapetus.
Why I came to this conclusion is
upon closer examination of the image I found some faint Stars in the
back ground. How can some Stars be smeared but then other Stars did
not have the same fate? There is a lot of light shining on Iapetus
from Saturn, now when the astronauts landed on the Moon and aimed
their camera out toward space there were no Stars in the images. I
thought I read once some where that when NASA was asked where were
the Stars they said the light from the Sun drowned out the light
from any Stars in Space. If anyone can
confirm this information for me I would really appreciate it.
And if this information
can be confirmed then how can there be this many Stars in this
image if what I believe are Rods really are Stars?
The only thing that makes sense
is that we are looking at an image of Iapetus, one of Saturn's
moons, that was imaged with Cassini. And in this image are a ton of
Rods flying through Space and in the back ground are a few faint
Stars, and we can see these few faint Stars because the light from
Saturn is not as strong as the light from the Sun that was shining on the Moon
when the astronauts were aiming their cameras out in Space. I
believe this image is a remarkable show of Rods flying together like
a flock of birds flying south for the winter.
