Helene, best view so far, 17 August 2006 |
Helene, best view so far, 17 August 2006 |
Aug 17 2006, 01:19 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10197 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Tomorrow - best view yet, less than 50,000 km. I hope we get a view of a different part of the surface than we've seen before.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Aug 17 2006, 04:30 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3234 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
While this would allow for our highest resolution observations of Helene, this encounter is at relatively high phase, with phase angles between 112 and 121 degrees. Not sure if we have a chance at Saturn-shine which would increase our coverage and improve these images usefulness for shape modelling.
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Aug 18 2006, 10:22 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: 8-December 05 Member No.: 603 |
According to the latest Cassini Significant Events report, there was Helene imaging this week.
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/sig-event-....cfm?newsID=684 (Way down at the bottom) Bart |
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Aug 19 2006, 03:40 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 541 Joined: 17-November 05 From: Oklahoma Member No.: 557 |
Raw pictures of Helene are up now on the JPL Cassini web site.
Edit: Also some pics of Mimas, and some impressive ones of Dione. The Helene pictures (only two so far) just show mostly a rough outline, mostly the night side was seen. Some detail along the lit edges. |
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Aug 19 2006, 04:45 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3234 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
Nice to see some great images of everyone's favorite space apple. That peak on the night side is certainly very intriguing. Some great saturn-shine Dione as well:
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=80828 -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Aug 19 2006, 12:02 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Helene in stretched color:
As the raws go, the color is probably not right, but no significant color variations are visible either. Rhea stretched color mosaics processed to match approximately true color, taken at around 160 000 km (left) and 190 000 km (right): EDIT: Fixed the orientation of Rhea images, north is now correctly located upwards in both mosaics. I'm unsure whether north direction is correct for the Helene image. This post has been edited by ugordan: Aug 19 2006, 03:05 PM -------------------- |
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Aug 19 2006, 04:23 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10197 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Quite a nice orbit! The rhea color pics are very nice, ugordan.
Here are two composites of the Helene images. There is faint saturnshine, which should look a lot better when these images come out on PDS. Too bad we don't have one longer exposure, as in the Dione set, to make the dark side glow. Phil 1. Three views during the flyby. There's quite a bit of rotation to provide stereo viewing. 2. These three plus the previous Cassini image and the Voyager view. -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Aug 19 2006, 05:18 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 903 Joined: 30-January 05 Member No.: 162 |
Lumpy little son of a gun.
Is there a way to calculate a surface roughness RMS coeffecient for all these interesting objects? Seems like it was Calypso (or was it Melpomene?) was almost eerily smooth. Maybe the Trojans have different historys from the ring edgers? |
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Aug 19 2006, 06:36 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3234 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
Quite a nice orbit! The rhea color pics are very nice, ugordan. Here are two composites of the Helene images. There is faint saturnshine, which should look a lot better when these images come out on PDS. Too bad we don't have one longer exposure, as in the Dione set, to make the dark side glow. Phil Thanks Phil! I'll take a look at these on Monday. hopefully some detail can be pulled out of these but certainly the dark limb may still be helpful for shape modellers. Looking at these, Helene appears to be very oddly shapped, or at least very lumpy. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Aug 19 2006, 07:44 PM
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Looking at these, Helene appears to be very oddly shapped, or at least very lumpy. What a gorgeous object! That's what tiny moons and asteroids used to look like, back in the day -- all spiky and craggy. It's nice to find at least one thing that matches the imaginations of the science fiction illustrators! |
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Sep 15 2006, 07:01 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10197 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Cassini's recent view of Helene was the subject of a nice release today:
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...fm?imageID=2273 Here I've stretched the Saturnshine areas even more to pull out everything that might be visible. It really shows the value of even high phase imaging of these little things. Phil CRedit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Sep 15 2006, 08:06 PM
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Lord Of The Uranian Rings Group: Members Posts: 798 Joined: 18-July 05 From: Plymouth, UK Member No.: 437 |
Phil,
Is it my imagination, or is there a long scarp-like feature visible in the Saturn-shine, near the right limb? Also, which hemisphere of the moon are we looking at here? North or South? Ian. -------------------- |
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Sep 15 2006, 08:47 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10197 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
No, it's not your imagination. There is a scarp or possibly groove-like feature there.
I think this looks down on the north side of the moon, but volcanopele might know better. I'm looking forward to the PDS release of the previous Helene sequence, which also has good Saturnshine. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Sep 16 2006, 11:49 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Here I've stretched the Saturnshine areas even more to pull out everything that might be visible. It really shows the value of even high phase imaging of these little things. It's possible the PDS release will allow even more to be visible as the brightness was clipped here to 8 bits from 12 bit data. -------------------- |
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Sep 16 2006, 05:05 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3234 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
It's possible the PDS release will allow even more to be visible as the brightness was clipped here to 8 bits from 12 bit data. From the two images stretched to show features in sunlight perhaps, but these images weren't exposed to show a great amount of detail in Saturn-shine, and I don't think there is much there beyond what is in the right-most image. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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