Primordial Ooze

Many of you may not know, but NASA sent a spacecraft to Saturn called "Cassini":http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm in 1997. There was a lot of "controversy":http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1997/09/cassini.html at that time since the spacecraft packs a bunch of plutonium for fuel and NASA decided to use the Earth's gravity to slingshot the baby toward Saturn. I used to track the progress of the spaceship using NASA's "Solar System Simulator":http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/ (try it!). However, since the flight took like 6 years, I lost interest. Anyway, Cassini is orbiting Saturn now and is taking some amazing shots. Here's one, with credit to the "JPL":http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA05380. Wow, that recent picture looks just like this one generated (for today) by the Solar System Generator... neat!