If nothing else, it'll make Charles' head explode.

Their shift of strategy to smaller planetary lander/scout and fly-by programs that are packed with rapidly-advancing technology will continue to blow our minds during our lifetimes.

Heck, these probes will still be intact, if not exactly functioning, when most of the people alive today are long forgotten.

"Smaller, cheaper, faster" has definitely been a good strategy.

The more NASA et al are uncovering, the more you realize that everything in the solar system is made out of the same stuff and that even rock lives.

we just can't see them.

Statistically, will there also be one shaped like a big pink penis with a strategically-placed meteorite impact site? That would be awesome!

Great images. I have always loved Saturn and its rings are such a wonder. Jupiter has some nascent rings I think.

Think of that storm- all trees down - no power for years.

Why do tits and dick always appear in these comments? Posters here are sex fiends and Trekkies. Nice.

Wonder where the best place to download for color replication to put on my apt. walls somewhere.....any ideas?

Unlikely. Planets by definition are circular bodies.

A penis-shaped asteroid, maybe. But a penis-shaped planet, definitely not.

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Okay, in all seriousness, one of the amazing things we've discovered from sending out probes such as Cassini is that apparently ring formation is common among "Jovian" or gas giant planets. All four Jovian planets in our system: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, have ring formations. Although Saturn is the only planet with rings generally visible from earth, the Hubble Space Telescope has photographed parts of Uranus' ring system.