You need to upgrade your Flash Player The theme of this blog is not only and obviously space, but in particular “terrestrial worlds”, places that tend to have surfaces on which one could walk or at least attach oneself to. These places sometimes also have other earth-like familiar features such as atmospheres, weather, volcanos, geysers and perhaps, we are finding, even exotic oceans, rivers or lakes that are not necessarily made of familiar materials we are used to here at home. The second theme is imagery. Occasionally I do some retouching of images when needed if an image is incomplete or sometimes “dirty” or noisy. I will attempt to correct image shortcomings based upon other images or well-accepted presumed attributes. When this is done, notes will be offered as to what was added, why and sometimes how it was done. This way no one should ever wonder if something they are looking at is real or photoshop.

Saturnati XI

Saturnati XI

Saturn looking like the bigger blue marble in the Solar System. One theory for the blueness of Saturn’s northern polar region during the age of Cassini versus the age of Voyager is due to atmospheric changes in the Saturnian winter. Some also theorize that the shadows of the rings drop the temperature even lower which might explain why the blueness is only found in the north.

4 Responses to “Saturnati XI”

  1. Bill Says:

    Quite nice. Do you do the color merge?

  2. thomas Says:

    yes, used the RGB and had to manipulate the clouds in the north to match… becuase… they move from image to image you know! the final was even more blue. so i revised to match the ever so awesome Ian Regan image a bit more.

  3. thomas Says:

    hey… feel free to use any of my images on your diggs. the more eyes upon them the better!

  4. Bill Says:

    Sweet. Will do.

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