Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Luke Missed

Recent NASA imagery has revealed the details of ring formation around a giant planet in a galaxy far, far away (click to enlarge).

For those of you not used to interpreting remote sensing images, an annotated version is posted below:

Maybe next time he will use the targeting computer.

Image from NASA, via the big picture.

1 comment:

qraal said...

Very clever. I've always thought Mimas was a good double for the "Death Star".