True and False (a test)

[Willamena]

I want to do a bit of a survey, here. Basically, I want you to list what is "true" in this photo and what is "false". Also, tell us why you chose those things.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070306.html

The one with the most answers gets a virtual cookie.

 

[Comet]

What exactly is the question?

 

[Engyo]

In one sense, it is all true, since what we are seeing is an image captured by a spacecraft's camera, digitized and beamed back to Earth, where it was decoded and reconverted back into an image. Whether your eyes would register the same image from the same point in space, I don't have enough data to say, without at lot of investigation. It also looks like a time-lapse image. The reflection of the rings on the surface of Saturn, and the shadow of Saturn falling on the rings, cause us to interpret the image in ways that aren't actually "true" per se. There is no slice out of the rings (upper right) and there are no rings on the surface of Saturn (center left), if that is what you meant by false.

 

[A. Leaf]

Yeah, if you look at 4 'o' clock on saturn it is strange how the light still bends around the planet. The shutter speed may have been like 10 seconds, to capture the image, thats why so bright and the rings so constant and also why so bright. If taken in a millisecond we would see the rings as tiny fragments of rock i'm sure, and the planet not so blasted with the brightness of the sun.