Retro vs today
How far we have come since the late 1970's.
This a photo from Pioneer 11 back in September 1979.
Public Domain, Link
By contrast some 30 years later, we can see many of the atmospheric surface details.
By NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI - http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-203, Public Domain, Link
Pick up auroral lights, via Hubble.
By ESA/Hubble, CC BY 4.0, Link
Check out the detail in the rings.
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Public Domain, Link
Technology is pretty amazing... as are some of the advances in optics we've seen. If you think about it, the quality image someone can take with their iPhone — essentially a tiny little camera — is remarkable, compared to the 6lbs of photo equipment and lenses that would have been required in 1978.
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incredible science sir.
a very remarkable works sir @gavvet
I think in next 30 years we will go more far and see much in depth details
Um....just a very slight difference I see....nothing much.
Night and day!
imagine how small we are and how great the universe is amazing, thanks for sharing this Mr. @gavvet
More like this!
Compared with just linking an interesting thing, I think stuff like this is more valuable.
Instead of this being just about Saturn, or some interesting lunar geology (and don't get me wrong, I like those) it's about how much the picture changed and the technology advanced. By the careful juxtaposition of the images I think it adds more from you to balance out the public domain stuff.
Now I could be totally duped and you just copy some sort of other content somehow structure and all so it's essentially nothing from 'you'.
I'm too generous with doubt benefits these days to think that though ;)