tedstryk
Feb 28 2005, 01:04 AM
It seems that starting with T3, Cassini was much more agressive in imaging available targets. It seemed to turn more to image more moons. Am I imagining this, or was Cassini being ultraconservative when it still had Huygens?
Decepticon
Feb 28 2005, 01:26 AM
I think it has to do with its Lower orbit.
remcook
Feb 28 2005, 06:16 PM
well...it is true that when it still had Huygens, its moment of inertia was much higher and thus the turn rates were lower.
Sunspot
Mar 2 2005, 03:47 PM
I hope Cassini had her cameras pointed at Titan on March 1, 22:35 UT:
Decepticon
Mar 3 2005, 01:18 PM
QUOTE (Sunspot @ Mar 2 2005, 10:47 AM)
I hope Cassini had her cameras pointed at Titan on March 1, 22:35 UT:
Oh yes!
Very nice.
http://saturn1.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/ima...&storedQ=921943
TheChemist
Mar 3 2005, 01:42 PM
I think Sunspot would like an image of Titan with Saturn on the background.
David
Mar 3 2005, 08:24 PM
I think that the "string of pearls" imagery where several moons are seen in a row along the line of Saturn's rings is very beautiful.
I am actually surprised at how visible the rings are edge-on, given how thin they are. I would have expected them to disappear against the background of Saturn altogether. Perhaps they are not precisely edge-on?
BruceMoomaw
Mar 3 2005, 09:32 PM
They pretty clearly are not completely edge-on in those photos -- there are some where the width of the thin triangle of visible ring is a bit wider than others. (Which is hardly surprising.)
The interesting question I myself haven't seen answered yet is whether the edge-on photos featuring Prometheus and Pandora -- which show a clear gap between the thin illuminated line of the F Ring and the thin illuminated line of the other rings -- are just due to this viewing-angle effect, or whether they're showing actual out-of-plane tilting or warping of the F Ring. (My guess is the latter. In one of those photos, Pandora, which of course is outside the F Ring, seems to be BETWEEN the plane of the F Ring and the plane of the other rings.)
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=33326http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=33330
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