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Happy Octo-tober!

Tonight I present to you a tiny #Dilophosaurus. With a fancy crest and a wrinkly neck, this fellow is sure to impress. His feather jacket is a bit scraggly , but he thinks of himself as being rather sporty, and struts across some #Jurassic scrublands full of pomp and circumstance.

Swirling pastels of Saturn’s clouds

This false-color view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows clouds in Saturn’s northern hemisphere. The view was produced by space imaging enthusiast Kevin M. Gill, who also happens to be an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The view was made using images taken by Cassini’s wide-angle camera on July 20, 2016, using a combination of spectral filters sensitive to infrared light at 750, 727 and 619 nanometers. Filters like these, which are sensitive to absorption and scattering of sunlight by methane in Saturn’s atmosphere, have been useful throughout Cassini’s mission for determining the structure and depth of cloud features in the atmosphere.