Good catch Rob!

So Steve WAS right after all! I always thought that a newer basin superimposed upon an older one was his argument all along.

That's really spectacular, Gordan. You make the rest of us amateurs look like amateurs!

Keep up the good work.

Hmmm.... could it be that Steve was right about Claude having a double-rim along its eastern extent?

Here's Jason's map again:

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&id=11658

Context mosaic showing the eastern rim of Claude:

*groan* I should've checked the map first - of course it's Claude and not Joan.

I must admit that it doesn't look like the Snowman to me, but I'm prepared to eat my words if shown otherwise...

Oooh, VP you tease!

Here's the eastern edge of impact basin "Joan" in Roncevaux Terra:

Gordan - I was referring to the article on the Cassini website that stated: "The last time Cassini was in safe mode was over four years ago."

Typical - the first safe mode event for four years had to occur just after the Iapetus flyby...

Here's my contribution to the Iapetus party:



*Yawn* I'm off to bed then!

<robin>
Holy image processing, Batman!
</robin>

That's an awesome image Gordan. You da man.

Ian.

I use Paint Shop Pro 8; it's cheap and fairly powerful, in addition to having a shallow learning curve.

Awesome composites, Emily!

Here are the two Odysseus money-shots with the interlacing removed:





Ian.

Some interesting links from Chuck Wood's Lunar Picture of the Day website:

Radar mosaic of the southern highlands region of the Moon:
http://www.lpod.org/?m=20070429

Radar mosaic of the Moon's nearside:
http://www.lpod.org/?p=1345

Radar dark halo craters:
http://www.lpod.org/archive/LPOD-2005-05-26.htm

Finally, here's a great example of how radar imagery can complement visible-light pictures of the Moon:

Hidden Maria:
http://www.lpod.org/?m=200602

Here's my collection of various NASA videos and animations, which I have collated from a variety of different sources:

Pioneer 11 Encounter with Saturn in 1979.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=82...59931&hl=en

Voyager 1 Flyby of Jupiter in 1979.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8...45219&hl=en

Voyager 1 Flyby of Saturn in 1980.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=54...08089&hl=en

Voyager 2 Encounter with Jupiter in 1979.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=18...95435&hl=en

Voyager 2 Flyby of Saturn in 1981.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=12...87981&hl=en

Voyager 2 Flyby of Uranus in 1986.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=17...72214&hl=en

Voyager 2 Encounter with Neptune in 1989.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8...44154&hl=en

Ice Volcanoes on Triton, as imaged by Voyager 2 in 1989.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2...09184&hl=en

Galileo Orbital Tour of Jupiter and its Moons.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8...43738&hl=en

I think the Jim Blinn animations are truly brilliant, despite the dated graphics. Modern computer visualisations (such as those for the Cassini mission) are prettier, but far less dynamic.

Ian.

Here's a view of the ISS passing over Plymouth last night, at about 11:55pm:



This 30-second exposure captures the space station passing thropugh the constellation of Draco. Other lines in the image are my washing line and a telephone cable.

Awesome! Gordan, you're a machine!

Harry Potter? Pfft. As far as kids' series go, I more interested in the upcoming Three Investigators movie...

"We Investigate Anything"

???

Phil's great stereo pair seems to show a massive crater at the top of the image. I wonder, is this the same feature that is prominent in the low-resolution Voyager picture?

Steve, you're more than welcome to use the stacked image!