Yes, it's the same sequence of images bouncing forwards and backwards; repeated four times. I prefer this sort of presentation as it allows (in my opinion, anyway) for a better appreciation of the three-dimensional shape of the moon, and is less jarring than a standard 'forward-only' animation.

Thanks Gordan - I've uploaded a more 'viewer-friendly' version to YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGbx7_GHXfw

Here's my version of the Calypso flyby:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10795027@N08/...548039/sizes/o/

Here's a fascinating "behind the scenes" article on how these neat new images of Pluto were produced:

http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~buie/pluto/mapstory.html

Epimetheus as seen by Voyager 1:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Epimetheus_moon.jpg

Janus as seen by Cassini:

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA11694

Here's an animation consisting of six NAC frames that show the shadow of the F-ring moving across Prometheus. Some spacecraft movement is evident too.

Wonderful work, as usual Gordan - I remember that flyby very fondly! Your flickr account has enough material for at least two volumes of coffee-table books, I reckon...

You cannot go wrong with Gordan's Flickr photostream:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ugordan/

HEALTH ADVISORY: May cause dehydration due to excessive drooling.

A crescent Saturn, taken on the 2nd of January:



Happy New Year to everybody!

Here's a enhanced R/G/B composite from the 26th:



The shadow appears to be cast by Enceladus (I think?)

This is a four-frame NAC mosaic from December 8th, 2000:

Thanks Gordan! Here's the full-disc, two-frame mosaic:

Nice one Ted. Here's another Jupiter-Io pairing that I prepared a little earlier...

Thanks for the pointer, Ted - I've uploaded a corrected version.

And let me belatedly congratulate you on the birth of your son. Wonderful news!

A vista of Jupiter and Io from the 10th of December 2000. The teardrop-shaped white cloud just below Io later merged with another white spot and metamorphosed into Red Spot Junior (if memory serves):

Good point Machi. I usually work with images at 400% of their original size in order to minimize any alignment errors. In that instance, I neglected to reduce the final composite to its normal dimensions. However, these Cassini pictures are of such quality that at 200% tghey still look very crisp and presentable.

Nice one Nprev - maybe Doug could have some T-shirts made up with that emblazoned across the front...

Here's a Europa transit from the same day as before (Dec 12th 2000):

Good grief Gordan - you just keep on coming up with the goods! That animation is the definition of awesome (well, according to my dictionary it is, anyway).

Here's a little something I knocked-up this morning:



(Dec 12, 2000)

Thanks Ted! It took me a little while to figure out how to blend together the Io-centric and Jupiter-centric versions of this composite, but I got there in the end without having to resort to the Paint Shop Pro lasso tool!

Anyway, here's a two-frame mosaic from the 12 of December, with an additional enhancement to bring the limb out of the gloom slightly:

...and a rather pretty view of Io transiting the Jovian disc earlier the same day (10th):

Here's a 4-frame NAC mosaic from the 10th December 2000:



(Edit: Replaced the original with a better version)

Last of all, for the time being, a classic view of the Jovian giant, with the GRS emerging from the terminator:



(October 13th)

Jupiter and Callisto (I think?) on the 1st of October:

Jupiter and Io, two days before (October 12th):

A comparison of an image from the PDS, before and after the IMG2PNG treatment. I've brightened both views quite considerably in order to make visible all of the crud that the calibration process removes: