"Sixty-four Sights from Saturn" Movie available for download, A Saturnian Musical Celebration To Honor Paul McCartney Options

[jsheff]

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.

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[volcanopele]

yes, that's the specific reason for the video card. Kinda nice, if you ask me. The short clips are necessary since it is the only way to get around the copywrite issue.

as for Beatles fans, I can only attest to Carolyn being a major Beatles fan, not sure about anyone else.

And yes, technically Steve is on the imaging team, though obviously he has other work to attend to first. He did some of his early work on Voyager images of Enceladus.

[ljk4-1]

yes, that's the specific reason for the video card. Kinda nice, if you ask me. The short clips are necessary since it is the only way to get around the copywrite issue.

as for Beatles fans, I can only attest to Carolyn being a major Beatles fan, not sure about anyone else.

And yes, technically Steve is on the imaging team, though obviously he has other work to attend to first. He did some of his early work on Voyager images of Enceladus.

Actually I was making a more subtle and less happy connotation with the
lyrics in the song and McCartney's current personal life. I'll just leave it
at that.

As for Beatle songs and legalities, the latter is what kept a Beatles song,
"Here Comes the Sun", from being preserved for at least 1 billion years on
the Voyager Interstellar Records.

According to the 1978 book Murmurs of Earth, all four Beatles were quite
happy to have their song on the records, but the company that owned them
refused to release it.

Like they'll be getting royalties off it in a billion years.