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Posted by: Malmer Sep 16 2005, 01:45 PM

Made these a while back.

http://www.syndicate.se/image/space/Enceladus_BW_Mosaic.jpg

http://www.syndicate.se/image/space/Enceladus_Color_Mosaic.jpg

Enjoy!

Mattias

Posted by: Jeff7 Sep 16 2005, 06:28 PM

Quite nice. Good work, and excellent resolution!

Posted by: volcanopele Sep 16 2005, 06:42 PM

Nice work!

Posted by: scalbers Sep 17 2005, 12:28 AM

Very nice indeed. This appears to expose a few gaps in the coverage of my Enceladus map. I'm wondering about what date the images for this mosaic were taken? I was thinking perhaps Feb 17, 2005 though I couldn't find enough raw images on the JPL page from that date that would cover all that particular territory. Any further info? Thanks!

BTW, the URL of this map for reference is at http://laps.fsl.noaa.gov/albers/sos/sos.html#ENCELADUS

Posted by: imran Sep 17 2005, 02:48 AM

Wow that looks amazing! Great work!

Posted by: Toma B Sep 17 2005, 08:45 AM

Super!!! Ultra!!! The Best!!!! Exelent!!! Beautifull!!!
NASA doesn't make them that good!!!

One of the most loveliest images I have ever saw!!!

Posted by: Malmer Sep 17 2005, 09:28 AM

Regarding gaps in the data;

I usually fill in areas that have missing data if the area is small. I only fill in at maximum 5% of the image. The B/W image has some data added in the upper right corner (you can easily see the cloning)

Usually I try to find real data in lower resolution to fill in the blanks. (from other flybys/missions)

I think that it is ok to do this because a black cut is more disturbing to the eye.

This Ganymede image for example has luminance from galileo and color from voyager and a little synthetic data to fill some of the small holes:

http://www.syndicate.se/image/space/ganymede_big2.jpg

This Europa image has data from two galileo flybys and i have used the different colorchannels to fill in the missing data. only one channel had coverage on the terminator.

http://www.syndicate.se/image/space/europa_big.jpg
will fix the colorbalance in this picture later. its a bit to red in the reds...


/Mattias
Just making pretty pictures

Posted by: Bob Shaw Sep 17 2005, 01:18 PM

Mattias:

Keep making 'em!

Well done.

Bob Shaw

Posted by: ljk4-1 Feb 9 2006, 12:24 PM

Young Enceladus

Summary - (Wed, 08 Feb 2006) It's easy to see the "wrinkly" features on the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. This actually means that portions of its surface are relatively young, and largely clear of impact craters. Its geologically active southern polar region is seen at the bottom of the image. This photo was taken on December 24, when Cassini was 108,000 kilometers (67,000 miles) from Enceladus.

http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/young_enceladus.html?822006

Posted by: scalbers Feb 14 2006, 11:50 PM

Thought I'd mention an Enceladus map update. The latest versions feature several improvements including some high-resolution images from March 9, 2005 obtained (with VolcanoPele's help) from the PDS. A notable feature is a map sheet (processed by VP) that takes my cylindrical map, then provides accompanying polar projections along with feature names and lat/lon grid. All of this is being done at the 8K resolution.

http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/sos/sos.html#ENCELADUS

Posted by: Phil Stooke Feb 15 2006, 01:36 PM

A very nice bit of mapping... From both Steve and Jason. I always say, you can't know a place until you have a map of it.

Phil

Posted by: tedstryk Feb 15 2006, 03:56 PM

Great Map!

Posted by: alan Feb 23 2006, 04:57 AM

New Enceladus image
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/image-details.cfm?imageID=2006

Posted by: JRehling Feb 23 2006, 04:22 PM

It never hit me until I saw this image, but the Galilean that Enceladus truly resembles is not Europa but Ganymede. The patches of ancient crust bordered with swirling rounded faults. There is surely a great size difference leading to differences in how features scale, and Enceladus seems not to have been pounded with any massive impacts the way Ganymede (and most saturnian icy satellites) had, and, of course, Enceladus has a living surface today while Ganymede seems not to. But the crustal dynamics on Enceladus today seem to resemble those on Ganymede maybe 3GYA. Europa, with its entirely reworked crust, is an entirely different beast. Maybe there's a continuum of cumulative activity that goes:

Dione/Tethys
Miranda
Ganymede/Enceladus
Triton? (may play by categorically different rules)
Europa

etc.