Saturn image taken by Cassini on 5/3/17, received by Earth on 5/4/17
Rise Force fans, Sith friends,
Snatch photons with lens
Praise clean lines, though dim
Soar spacecraft or swim
Saturn image taken by Cassini on 5/4/17, received by Earth on 5/5/17
There’s beauty in the rawness;
When processed, it is stolen.
With stars speckling glossed rings,
like marts selling us Darth treats,
Sun’s children shopped May the 4th;
Cassini grasped rays of worth.
Poet’s Notes:
For both images above, credit goes to NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.
For more information on the first Cassini image, go here.
For more information on the second Cassini image, go here.
To explore raw Cassini images, and even search them by date, visit the galleries!
For more information on Star Wars Day, aka May the Fourth (be with you), visit Wookieepedia!
Lastly, for Mom and anyone else who is still reading, you are invited to read a thoroughly polished/baked piece of Cassini poetry here.
Jake Christensen, aka ChildeJake, is a Michigan-based writer with a strong interest in space exploration and NASA in particular. He has attended NASA Socials at Glenn Research Center and Goddard Space Flight Center, as well as trips to venues like the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. He is a member of The Planetary Society and an avid reader and creative writer.
During the daytime, Jake provides marketing and administrative support for scientific equipment sales. His writing has appeared in The Planetary Report, Current Magazine in Ann Arbor, as well as online for pillownaut.blogspot.com, encoremichigan.com, and his other blog: Childe Jake’s Pilgrimage. He has also performed many times onstage in regional and educational theatre. Periodically, he appears in The Moth StorySLAMs.
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