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Real Saturn Fly-By

Mar 17, 2011 Alloh link
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110315.html
In the last sequence, Saturn looms increasingly large on approach as cloudy Titan swoops below. With Saturn whirling around in the background, Cassini is next depicted flying over Mimas, with large Herschel Crater clearly visible. Saturn's majestic rings then take over the show as Cassini crosses Saturn's thin ring plane. Dark shadows of the ring appear on Saturn itself. Finally, the enigmatic ice-geyser moon Enceladus appears in the distance and then is approached just as the video clip ends.

Check: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110315.html or http://www.outsideinthemovie.com/

As usuall, APOD delights us... this time with a real footage created from Cassini's pictures. Watch the whole movie, the best is in the ending...

Notice no 3D models or rendering of any kind present, only real pictures and "natural" colors!

By the way, we really need to be able to fly across planet's rings, like this. Other games implemented it as a ultra thin disk with a few small rocks around it... so one can approach and cross the ring.
Mar 17, 2011 Lord~spidey link
Aint that some shit.
Mar 17, 2011 Pizzasgood link
Flying through rings in VO would mean either having the ring bisect the entire sector, or significantly reducing the scale of planets so that they can fit within a sector (and therefor be crash-into-able, if not land-on-able).

Not that I'm against the idea.
Mar 17, 2011 slime73 link
Fly across a planet's rings eh? I'm reminded of this. :)
Mar 18, 2011 Dr. Lecter link
Or the opening sequence of Star Trek Voyager.