Cassini image database & updates, And notifications of PDS data releases Options

[Bjorn Jonsson]

I have noticed that the January 1, 2007 Cassini PDS release is already available, see http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/data/cassi...assini_orbiter/

I haven't downloaded all of the imaging data and I'm just beginning to digest what I already have but there are some beautiful images of Enceladus' plumes and satellite mutual events, images of the G and D rings and interesting images of Saturn's nightside and fairly good Iapetus images.

Radar and VIMS is also available.

All in all a nice 'Christmas gift' .

[edstrick]

"....There is heavy emphasis on the rings with lots of various movies including F ring movies, spoke movies etc. plus lots of multispectral coverage ..."

My recollection is that the Voyagers got surprisingly little multispectral coverage of the rings. Imaging sequences concentrated on things like phase and inclination angle, radial structure mapping, etc, followed by the big "spoke movie" from Voyager 2 after the Voyager 1 spoke discovery.

I think I recall that one mision (maybe Voyager 1), got only orange/blue or some such 2-filter moderately high rez color coverage of the rings. I suspect there was no expectation that the rings would have widespread color variation and only minimal effort to check for radial color variations was worth the data-bandwidth.

[tedstryk]

There is definitely a large body of high phase multispectral ring data from Voyager. I am not sure about data taken on approach.