This looks like CGI, but it isn't!

[Tank]

Cassini delivers holiday treats from Saturn

Larger images are available via the link above.



Saturn's third-largest moon Dione can be seen through the haze of its
largest moon, Titan, in this view of the two posing before the planet and
its rings from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI



The colorful globe of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, passes in front of the
planet and its rings in this true color snapshot from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI



Saturn's moon Tethys, with its stark white icy surface, peeps out from
behind the larger, hazy, colorful Titan in this Cassini view of the two moons.
Saturn's rings lie between the two. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI

If gravity were not observable and quantifiable these images would not exist.
(Reference to another thread where somebody tried to conflate the 'spirit'
with gravity in that it was 'non-quantifiable and non-observable').

[Crow]

Nice.

The reason the images look more like CGI rather than a photo is due to the conversion process between the original raw light data gathered (which ranges from 0 to 4095) to one that is a reasonable data size and can also be viewed on a pc screen (a light range of 0 to 255) so there is a lot of data loss between the original raw data and the final image and is why it looks strange. Same thing goes for why pictures captured by NASA satellites look different than those captured by Russian satellites as the data has to be processed into he closest possible colour with the restrictions that exist, of course they have a different ideas of what is more accurate (same thing if you look at the difference between digital camera manufactures).

edit: Just thought I would provide some images of what I was mentioning above due to the difference in data processing and how it can produce a different image.

First is the NASA picture of the earth that you are all most likely familiar with.

Second is the Elektro-L satalite image of the earth.

[McQ]

Cassini has been sending some spectacular images and data back to us. Damn, I'm impressed!

[Tank]

Absolutly astounding stuff.