"Sixty-four Sights from Saturn" Movie available for download, A Saturnian Musical Celebration To Honor Paul McCartney |
"Sixty-four Sights from Saturn" Movie available for download, A Saturnian Musical Celebration To Honor Paul McCartney |
Jun 18 2006, 05:40 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 73 Joined: 14-June 05 From: Cambridge, MA Member No.: 411 |
The Cassini team has composed a tribute to Paul McCartney.
Caution! The file is 147 MB in size. Right-click on it and do a "Save Target As ..." to your local machine. Even using a broadband connection, it is a very long download! - John Sheff Cambridge, MA A SATURNIAN MUSICAL CELEBRATION TO HONOR PAUL MCCARTNEY MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE CASSINI IMAGING CENTRAL LABORATORY FOR OPERATIONS (CICLOPS) SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE, BOULDER, COLORADO http://ciclops.org cpcomments@ciclops.org Preston Dyches (720) 974-5859 CICLOPS/Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo. Image Advisory: June 18, 2006 A SATURNIAN MUSICAL CELEBRATION TO HONOR PAUL MCCARTNEY On the occasion of Paul McCartney's landmark 64th birthday, the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) is releasing today an 8-minute movie as a birthday gift to the former Beatle. Sixty-four of the most dramatic and spectacular images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, including one mosaic from the European-built Huygens probe of the surface of Titan, are composed together in a cinematic voyage through the Saturn system and put to the music of the Beatles. "In their creation of new musical forms and directions, and in their expansive vision of the art of popular music, the Beatles reached heights of achievement in their brief time together that nobody has been able to surpass", said Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team leader and the producer/director of the movie. "And being a major element in that incredible story makes Paul McCartney, in my mind, one of planet Earth's brightest stars. It makes me very happy to be able to celebrate him in this way. I hope he likes our movie." The movie `Sixty-four Sights from Saturn' is available today on the home page of http://ciclops.org. High resolution versions may be obtained by emailing cpcomments@ciclops.org. The Cassini imaging operations center (CICLOPS) is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. -end- |
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Jun 20 2006, 02:00 PM
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The CICLOPS team are Beatles fans.
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Jun 20 2006, 02:05 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
The CICLOPS team are Beatles fans. They should be Sun Ra fans. The guy is from Saturn, after all. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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