Peering from the shadows, the Saturn-facing hemisphere of tantalizing inner moon Enceladus poses in this Cassini spacecraft image. North is up in the dramatic scene captured during November 2016 as Cassini’s camera was pointed in a nearly sunward direction about 130,000 kilometers from the moon’s bright crescent. In fact, the distant world reflects over 90 percent of the sunlight it receives, giving its surface about the same reflectivity as fresh snow. A mere 500 kilometers in diameter, Enceladus is a surprisingly active moon. Data and images collected during Cassini’s flybys have revealed water vapor and ice grains spewing from south polar geysers and evidence of an ocean of liquid water hidden beneath the moon’s icy crust.

Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA

    • baguette@piefed.socialEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Note that your link directs to the latest post. I think it is because of the /fap/. If that is removed it works fine. I think that’s a bit of a messy system that APOD uses.

      • porcoesphino@mander.xyz
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        2 days ago

        Yeah… I noticed that but was too busy to work out what was happening. It’s the link straight from some search engine I was using that matched the text verbatim. I assumed that meant a link to the post. I’m pretty sure that lead to the confusion with the poster but didn’t have the free time to work out how I fucked up. Thanks for letting me know

      • porcoesphino@mander.xyz
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        6 days ago

        I’m glad to see people finding interesting and beautiful things to post, I just don’t understand copying content and not sharing the link. Copying to me results in a quick “that’s pretty”. Sharing the link helps the creator and anyone new that wants to learn more about the content (and in this case could be introduced to the picture of the day). It’s such a small amount of work from the poster so that every single person that sees it can get a little more out of it.

        Mostly though, I just don’t understand why you attributed those involved so well (far above what I expected from anyone, even taking the time to format links and look them up) but didn’t do a quick copy paste of where you saw it. I’m not even trying to have a dig at your behaviour here, it’s just something I don’t relate to.

        I hope you keep posting, I just think the link adds a lot and helps avoid things like CG.

        • Innerworld@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          6 days ago

          I’ve been pasting the link to the highest resolution of a given APOD image in the URL of the post so that people don’t have to leave Lemmy to view or save the image. Would it work if the body of the post only said, Source?

          Could you please demonstrate the post you would have made? It’s not clear to me what you think should be included.

          • porcoesphino@mander.xyz
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            2 days ago

            I’m just some arrogant guy on the internet and not some arbiter of correctness, but something along the lines of adding a link pointing to the original material along with the amazing image and quote. I think it would be this:

            https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260207.html

            But, it seems like I sent the wrong link before so that probably confused things. Sorry about that