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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Cassini general discussion and science results _ More Of Iapetus

Posted by: Sunspot Oct 23 2004, 10:11 PM

Some interesting views of Iapetus:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/raw-images-details.cfm?feiImageID=25236

This was one of the few full size images I could find, most seem to be downsampled.

Posted by: Bjorn Jonsson Oct 23 2004, 10:34 PM

I'm attaching two superresolution images of Iapetus I did by stacking raw images and then sharpening the resulting image. Unfortunately the bright areas are saturated due to the automatic contrast stretch applied to the original JPG images at the Cassini website. However, some interesting details are visible in the dark areas.

Bjorn

Posted by: remcook Oct 24 2004, 09:35 AM

hmmm...some string of pearls...maybe a great crack?

Posted by: OWW Oct 24 2004, 05:48 PM

Very likely. Just take a look at some other medium sized icemoons. They all have canyons.

(Voyager images)

Thethys:

Dione:

Titania:

Ariel: