Blast my impulsive nature! This morning I decided—against my better judgement—to tackle this seven-footprint RGB monster of a mosaic. It's still not finished, but should still give a good idea of what the final product will look like:

This new mosaic includes terrain visible to LORRI via haze-illumination only and includes putative cryovolcano Piccard Mons:

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20050

October 15th:

October 10th:

September 23rd:

The latest observation of Titan (from the 21st):

2016-09-10 Titan by Ian Regan, on Flickr

That is very impressive!

Let's not forget that Pioneer 11 got our first half-decent look at Jupiter's north pole, and it didn't spy anything hexagonal.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-nvePMCOx...stercorrect.jpg

http://www.drewexmachina.com/wp-content/up...r_11_npf1cf.jpg

-- [Tip of the cap to UMSF's very own Ted Stryk]

Nonetheless, this recent Juno image release is just a taster of the really good sauce that's yet to come

Made a magnified 'bouncy' version for completeness:

http://imgur.com/oveN4Ts

An animation of 92 NAC frames, captured while Cassini was observing Hyperion:

http://imgur.com/a/v9puc

Another little offering of mine: a OBV Voyager 1 composite from February 1979:

Bjorn,

I spent a whole half-hour sitting in a darkened room last night, exploring your Jupiter imagery on my Kindle. It was a spine-tingling experience, and I have never seen the King of the Planets look so good!!

I was inspired to work on geometrically correcting the PDS calibrated imagery—utilising your custom-made flatfields—to produce the best Jupiter composites I've ever rendered. Thanks to the tiepoint info, an Excel macro, and the Unwarp plugin for ImageJ, I finally succeeded in warping the cleaned CALIB frames to match the GEOMED products.

This is the final result: a color view made from orange and violet frames shuttered by Voyager 1 on March 2nd, 1979:

And from the following day, August 4th:

The latest view from August 3rd:

Without correction for geometric distortion, the Jupiter approach movies will look as though they were filmed underwater (I speak here from bitter experience).

I've already completed this particular video using a much more refined version of the method outlined in this clip from 2010:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XjW0vZZZXw

Here's a snippet of the final movie, which I can't yet release for various reasons: (But look out for it soon )

https://youtu.be/ZLSD0_-3LTM?VQ=HD1080

It really does appear to be a cloud, visible in two separate WAC frames:



And yes, the subsequent NAC views show that the cloud candidate has vanished:

This is *right* in my wheelhouse, as I've been tinkering with various Voyager data-sets for a few years now, looking for suitable sequences to be turned into movies. To date I've worked on:

• Voyager 1 Jupiter Approach (color)
• Voyager 1 Jupiter Approach Movie (B&W w/scan-platform movement): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nf9nBtd2dM
• Voyager 2 Jupiter Approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvzKYIbsojM
• Voyager 2 Saturn Spokes Movie: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs...oach-movie.html
• Voyager 2 Saturn Approach (WIP): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH1_Z-Awl8Q
• Voyager 1 Saturn Approach (WIP)
• Voyager Neptune Approach (NAC / WIP): http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakda...ng-neptune.html

Thanks Jason! Yeah, I've been looking for a way to give the CB3 frames some color for a while now, and seemed to have hit upon a recipe that works:


Titan 2015-OCTOBER-02 by Ian Regan, on Flickr


Titan 2009-JUNE-25 by
Ian Regan, on Flickr

This is a 'color' version using the CB3, MT1 and MT3 filters:

Stunning Bjorn! Can't believe this imagery came from a TV camera!

I think belated acknowledgement and congratulations are due for Bjorn's magnificent achievement of making it to the front cover of Sky & Telescope (or at least his Voyager GRS composite did, anyway).

The cover of the March 2016 issue:



http://www.skyandtelescope.com/sky-and-tel...rch-2016-issue/

This movie consists of 386 wide-angle camera frames captured by Cassini on April 25, 2016. The monochrome frames were colourized using a lone Red-Green-Blue composite.

https://youtu.be/rMauiN7oUKY

Very early look at what the Neptune sequence will eventually look like:

https://vimeo.com/158240790

The circular feature north of Menvra is fascinating: it appears prominently in this earlier ISS view from 2010:


Global Titan View by Ian Regan, on Flickr

Also, it's rather prominent in the VIMS mosaic assembled from T-114 data: