Rev 126 - Feb 4-22, 2010 - Mimas (main target), Tethys, Iapetus, Calypso and mutual events too |
Rev 126 - Feb 4-22, 2010 - Mimas (main target), Tethys, Iapetus, Calypso and mutual events too |
Feb 15 2010, 12:30 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Damn, the best picture is a bit overexposed. ... or, to put it another way... WOOHOO!!!! New pictures of Mimas! And we can drool over them just a day or so after they were taken!!! How lucky are we?!?!?!? Stunning pics, Cassini just keeps delivering, doesn't she? -------------------- |
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Feb 15 2010, 12:34 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 915 Joined: 4-September 06 From: Boston Member No.: 1102 |
Wow, what a great set of images, including Epimetheus and Janus playing rocks. Very exciting to be on the Cassini site as the boxes with red X's turn to impossibly great images.
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Feb 15 2010, 12:37 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
EDIT: From the image someone said was overexposed I now see the contrast is higher than I expected (I'm looking at the images as I type ). I'm guessing low albedo variations show up so clearly because of the low phase angle here. -------------------- |
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Feb 15 2010, 02:01 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1074 Joined: 21-September 07 From: Québec, Canada Member No.: 3908 |
Damn, the best picture is a bit overexposed. http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...7/N00151520.jpg Modifying levels and curves on this image in Pshop, I get this: There seems to be ridges (outcrops?) on the central peak of Herschel. |
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Feb 15 2010, 02:14 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3234 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
Four of the images from the encounter are highlighted on the CICLOPS website:
http://ciclops.org/view_event/128/Mimas_Re...yby_Raw_Preview -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Feb 15 2010, 03:06 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 159 Joined: 4-March 06 Member No.: 694 |
There is also a set of Tethys images from about 177,000km available too.
-------------------- I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed.
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Feb 15 2010, 03:17 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
-------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Feb 15 2010, 03:57 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 128 Joined: 28-October 08 From: Boston, MA Member No.: 4469 |
Nice one, charborob. The darkening in the crater walls is really pronounced in that image. Gordon's interpretation is enticing; I look forward to hearing other possibilities.
Kudos once again to the Cassini team for the spectacular views of another world. What amazing times we live in. |
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Feb 15 2010, 04:01 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Gordon's interpretation is enticing; I made no interpretation, just said what it looks like -------------------- |
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Feb 15 2010, 04:07 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
Merging N00151591+93+95 (green+IR2+UV2 filters respectively in place of G,R,B channels) with Saturn in background:
This is a enhanced version: -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Feb 15 2010, 04:14 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3234 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
Bah! Just when I though I got my color version done before you guys. Curses!
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Feb 15 2010, 04:21 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
Bah! Just when I though I got my color version done before you guys. Curses! I would like to see your version, for sure is different (at least in terms of alignment technique, which was difficult for me...) -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Feb 15 2010, 04:54 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 29-December 05 From: NE Oh, USA Member No.: 627 |
Wonderful as always.
Yeah, Stu, the fact we get access to these images so quickly still boggles this old space hound. What is really amazing to me is that we have this old, battered moon (on the surface) riding right next to the most active mid-sized moon Enceladus. Location in a system does not necessarily tell the whole story?! Craig |
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Feb 15 2010, 05:02 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 102 Joined: 29-January 10 From: Poland Member No.: 5205 |
Janus and Epimetheus eclipses (animation)
-------------------- Adam Hurcewicz from Poland
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Feb 15 2010, 05:13 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
Well since Adam beat me by a few seconds, here's a MOV file instead
Attached File(s)
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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