Rings And Moons, A little picture |
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Rings And Moons, A little picture |
 Mar 21 2005, 04:18 PM
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 The moon on the left moved a lot during the three images this was done with - so it was a big of a botch-job to create that, but I really like it  Doug |
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Mar 21 2005, 05:11 PM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Mar 21 2005, 04:18 PM) The moon on the left moved a lot during the three images this was done with - so it was a big of a botch-job to create that, but I really like it That is absolutely the craziest Cassini image yet... seems like they just keep getting crazier. 
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Mar 21 2005, 09:34 PM
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Absolutely beautiful. The moon on the left has a blusih tint. Interesting that the rings have a fuzzied outline. How close are we to the plane of the rings? I suspect that we are at a slight angle so we are seeing the near and far edge of the rings and not a fuzzy thickness.
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Mar 22 2005, 10:28 AM
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Doug,
have you got a bigger version of that image? I see my new desktop..... Chris |
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Mar 22 2005, 10:49 AM
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Nope - that is as big as it gets. They were 1024 x 1024 obviosuly, but that's simply a crop from that - there's just black around the outside
I actually resized it 200% to better align the channels, then resize back down to the size you see there - but that's all there is imagesize wize. Doug |
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Mar 22 2005, 11:06 AM
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But the 1024 x 1024 version would still have the rings all the way across...
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Mar 22 2005, 03:14 PM
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Told you we might drop a few posts on the way in the move.... it's a bit slow at the moment but that should improve
  Doug |
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Mar 23 2005, 03:57 AM
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Those are, left to right, Rhea, Dione, and Mimas, right?
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Mar 23 2005, 11:07 AM
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QUOTE (David @ Mar 23 2005, 03:57 AM) Those are, left to right, Rhea, Dione, and Mimas, right?  Dont look at me - I havnt got a clue Doug |
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Mar 23 2005, 02:22 PM
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Yes, that's what the NASA website says.
-------------------- Jonathan Ward
Manning the LCC at http://www.apollolaunchcontrol.com |
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Apr 12 2005, 05:53 AM
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Here an interesting steregram of Saturn+Ring (crossed eyes, start images are W00005976 and 5989):
-------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Apr 12 2005, 05:13 PM
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Its been almost a year now of Cassini Saturn images (approach & post SOI), and I keep thinking I've missed something...
While many of the ring & moon images are truly breathtaking... I don't recall seeing anything mentioned at the press conferences or on the Cassini web site regarding those "dark radial ring spokes" that were discovered during the Voyager flybys. The initial mystery was that any radial feature in the rings should be quickly spread out by the differential rotation rates between the inner portion orbiting faster than the outer region. I know the thinking now is that they were produced by dust above the ring plane held in the magnetic field. Has anyone heard any news about them from Cassini, let alone any images? RedSky |
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Apr 12 2005, 05:35 PM
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From what I have read, that is because they have been absent. There has been some speculation that this is due to the high tilt of the ring plane toward the sun right now. As Saturn moves increasingly toward an edge on configuration, it will be interesting to see if the spokes seen by Voyager and HST reappear.
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Apr 13 2005, 04:13 PM
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Apr 14 2005, 03:45 PM
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Bizzare patterns in the F Ring/Prometheus and Pandora:
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=37451 |
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