Just plain cool - panoramic scan of Saturn's rings (11795 x 1425)


	Just plain cool - panoramic scan of Saturn's rings (11795 x 1425)

alanocu

1-5-2008 1:26 PM

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saturn, space exploration

alanocu says:

so if you 'click to enlarge' on the panorama (11795 x 1425 pixels), firefox will zoom the image down to fit your monitor-hover over the image with the magnifying glass and click it!

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1-5-2008 3:24 PM

abailart

Great!

1-7-2008 10:31 AM

dorine

Spectacular, alan!

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