Mutual event of Janus and Tethys on Oct 27.

Another mutual event, this one with Janus, and (I guess) Rhea, also on Oct 27.

An attempt at recreating a view:



I used the color images from three sets of astrometric observations. Put a bit of compositing work into this. All of the moons are aligned on the locations they occupied when the green channel image of the second set of observations was taken.

That was a bit tricky, since Tethys didn't have a complete set of color observations and Rhea was outside the frame. I handled Tethys by producing a color image from the first set of observations and photoshopping it in behind the rings. Rhea's position was extrapolated using its motion relative to Janus in the third set of observations to get a general idea of its location.

Not super scientifically accurate, but still a pretty view nonetheless!

First extreme closeup of Enceladus' south polar region from Wednesday's plume passage:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawi...?imageID=342927

I rotated the closeup picture of Enceladus to straighten the horizon and increased the contrast in the shadowed regions:

The fly-by images are in, and here's a quick 'n dirty RGB mosaic stack from IR/GR/UV filters:

http://s10.postimg.org/qwjlimgnb/enceladus1a_stitch.jpg

An extended color image of Titan from a storm watch observation on October 26:




And the main attraction for Orbit 224, Enceladus:



There was some nice Saturnshine in the raw frames, but the jpg artifacting around the Huffman compression mangled it pretty badly. I just stripped it out of the image with levels. I also did a little bit of curve adjustment to pull out a bit of detail on the left side of Enceladus, which is very close to being overexposed in the public images.

Departing Enceladus
(8.3 MiB animation, aligned, slightly cleaned)

Fantastic work! (except here Enceladus is upside down)

I was having a bit of fun trying to get a few more details out of the backlit jets jpeg posted on the NASA Cassini site of the 28-Oct-15 flyover. I think the cropped processed image is worth posting as a comparison to the original……Hᴜɢʜ….ツ

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Thanks a lot for this! I love such timelapses, they make it feel like you're hittching a ride aboard Cassini.

Could you please make a timelapse using the next series of images, starting with http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawi...?imageID=343011

Are these Saturn aurora inages? I can see a wispy vertical stripe of some kind there: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...1/N00250271.jpg

Enceladus mosaic (E-21)



and geysers gif-movie: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lunexit/22480950710/sizes/o/

Thanks a lot jccwrt for the Enceladus pic and also to eliBonora, for this nice work of yours kindly shared with us (including the good Mars MER pics for eliBonora) !

Apparently, the image shown on post #5 of this thread is the only close-up image taken during this flyby?

Only one released thus far. As I understood the flyby briefing, they were planning to capture quite a few images. They are most likely embargoed since part of the flyby goals was to characterize the type of terrain is ejecting the material (curtains, jets or a mix). I sent them a message on twitter asking if this was the case and didn't get a response. If anyone else wants to chime in and confirm, that would be great to know for sure.

From http://www.ciclops.org/view/8211/Rev224:

"Afterward, the Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) will be prime, including during closest approach. INMS will directly measure the composition of gas in the jets of Enceladus's south polar plume during closest approach. The Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA) will perform similar measurements of the dust in the plume. ISS will acquire five Wide-Angle-Camera (WAC) images during closest approach while riding along with INMS, though images may be pointed off Enceladus or pointed on the dark side of the moon's day/night terminator."

The other four frames at closest approach were either acquired when the camera wasn't pointed at Enceladus, or when the FOV had passed the terminator.

There is no embargo on Cassini raw images; everything goes straight to the website.

Yes, at South Pole... it's fantastic and always fascinating

Video: https://flic.kr/p/zLRW5S

@vikingmars: thanks!

fwiw anaglyph taken from a couple approach images of the E-21 flyby, plus a parellel on some of the tigerstripe detail
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