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' .

[Stu]

That looks brilliant Emily, a really useful resource I think. I know for a fact I haven't got the imaging skills or tech savvy to make any real practical use of it, but others here - and elsewhere - will, and they'll appreciate all your hard work and effort I'm sure. It is a lot neater and more easily navigable than v1.0. Great seeing all the plumes images in one place, really brings home just how fascinating and important a moon Enceladus is.

[elakdawalla]

I know for a fact I haven't got the imaging skills or tech savvy to make any real practical use of it...

Hmm. It's kind of distressing to hear you say that -- this is intended to serve the same function as the raw images pages for Cassini, or the Phoenix mission, or whatever, except that it is supposed to provide access to much higher-quality, non-JPEGgy, non-contrast-stretched data that's archived in a way that makes it tough for amateurs to access. I'm trying to solve that access problem and make these much better data available to the public. You can do all the same stuff with these images that you can do with the raw Cassini images, you just aren't hobbled by the limitations of the raw data site. Clearly I need to do something to make this more accessible to you -- what do I need to do?

--Emily