I like the colorization, Stu. Keeper!

Here's another work in progress. This makeover of the Adiri-Shangri-La regional view is cobbled together from the ISS basemap (10/06), the obligatory SAR swaths (T8/T13), raw frames from the 13 May T30 encounter, the nifty CICLOPS "looking ahead" Celestia mosaics, and a cannibalized 1/64th of Paul McCartney's birthday present. This is presented in the standard Exploitcorporations LLMF Equal-Area Projection ™, so plan on losing your blimp anywhere west of the center of the map.

This seems like as good a place as any to deposit this experiment, rather than resurrecting the old map thread. This is a largely cosmetic retooling of the Fensal-Aztlan portion of the global map with the currently released SAR swaths overlain (T3. T13, T16, T17, T25). The resolution here is barely decent enough to make out the dunes in places, but it gives a pretty good indication of what sort of mapping products will be possible from these growing datasets.

The optical navigation image from 11 May is the first clear view of Tethys since December. The subdued peak ring basin is nicely positioned on the terminator, with Penelope on the limb and Melanthius just out of view. The limb looks distorted in that direction, with the sort of troughs extending away from it seen in views of Dione's large basin. One of them crosscuts the deep crater visible in the high-resolution mosaics from the September 2005 flyby.

With Cassini reentering the ring plane for the upcoming series of icy satellite encounters (crowned with the Iapetus flyby in September), it seems like a good time to open a few threads on the state of imaging coverage of these worlds and post on the new results as they come in. I'll start by picking on Tethys as we haven't seen anything new since December.

This is part of a poster project summarizing global and near-global views of the icy moons. All natural color images here are the work of ugordan with the exception of the first (Mattias Malmer) and the last (CICLOPS).
This will be replaced with an annotated and expanded version as time allows:

Certainly can't argue with that...the broad spectrum of coverage is critical for properly peeling this orange. Thanks for the insights regarding the channels south of the sea. I had no idea whether or not they were unusual, but they sure are pretty and well defined in the image.

I think that one's a Steve Winwood number. Pluto's dig on Lucy Lawless there was pretty harsh too. Loved the riffs on Mercury's small planet complex...

No, sadly I can't seem to get IRC to work properly. I stumbled across it in the OPAG thread. Did a little double-take at first.

A fragment of one of the recent swaths (T28?) was included in the Titan Flagship Study and captures the south shore of the Lake Superior-sized sea seen at the tail of the T25 pass. The channels are really spectacular...

Thanks, Emily. Here's a composite of the released views to date of the Great Red Spot for comparisons:

Finally, a contrast-enhanced composite of hendric's postcard-of-the-century:




Thanks NH team for an amazing flyby!

The same view run through sharpening and bandpass for detail:

Here's the second 15(?)-frame Storm Evolution mosaic:



EDIT: Updated

Indeed very reminiscent of recent views of Io...a quick summary:

I'm sure this has likely been brought up somewhere before, but do the broad fractures visible around the big unnamed basin near the south pole in many views of the region seem to radiate from it?

In this instance it was simply unsharp masking at 100% and a radius of one pixel with a theshold of 0 levels on the full-sized mosaic. Seems to work really well with these images...positional accuracy and limb fit are another matter entirely...definitely a compromise.

Quick-and-dirty mosiac:




Best daylight view of the cross-section craters from the targeted pass as well.

Another stab at it, in glorious Fudge-O-Vision:

Olvegg and 4th Rock, these maps are truly a public service. I can't take my eyes off of them! Lovely work, and thank you.

Thanks, VP! Io's mountain landforms are strangely more fascinating to me than the volcanoes, but I'm biased in favor of tall stuff.

Here's a link to Schenk and Hargitai's database project for anyone interested:
Io Mountain Database

Nice work on the colorized pic, Stu!

edit: The lighting geometry on the Hi'iaka Montes looks very similar to that seen on Galileo's passes.

The turbulence to the west bears a very obviously striking resemblance to the GRS pre-2007. Hope that the similarities are useful in lieu of the studies planned for the now-invisible patterns near her big sister.

I'm not usually prone to sentimentality(snort), but this has been kind of a remarkable day. I just came to the realization that I will probably not see the volcanoes of Io again in my lifetime after this passage. In the same day, we have a spacecraft orbiting Saturn, three circling Mars and two on the surface, one passing the same and looking through its own sails, one bound for Mercury, one at Venus, and a host of spacecraft on the surface here waiting to set out for Luna and the asteroids and beyond. Seems sorta ridiculous to get ecstatic over two pictures of a flying pizza. I only have two people in my immediate world who even remotely(but very sympathetically) get it. Their eyes still glaze over after five minutes of babbling. Thanks john_s, Alan Stern, volcanopele, and everyone else here for the ride.

X's and Oh!s.

Wow! Nice update...that "north to the left" bit was confusing. I'm not sure how much distortion would be imparted to the new image in reprojection...it will be much easier with the whole swath. As to Phil's map, the low resolution and different "seeing" between ISS and RADAR probably make things worse. I wanted to rip my friggin' eyeballs out trying to fit the mosaic to any part of ISS image, even after blurring the RADAR picture.
Here's a different take with a little speculative Lake Doodle:

That's a staggering image, and fortuitously framed as well. The T19 pass seemed to catch only the edges of a much bigger feature. Betcha this swath will require a trip to the bank for rolls of quarters when we see it in its entirety (not to mention the cross-cutting of the other six tracks!)

Pseudoperspective colorized:

Looks like Prometheus shows up okay in the short exposure too, waaaay stretched: