Rhea Revisited, Mosaics from the 30 August 2007 Encounter |
Rhea Revisited, Mosaics from the 30 August 2007 Encounter |
Aug 28 2008, 03:37 AM
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SewingMachine Group: Members Posts: 316 Joined: 27-September 05 From: Seattle Member No.: 510 |
In the excitement leading up to the Iapetus flyby twelve days later, the 5000 km-range nontargeted Rhea encounter (49RH) recieved relatively little attention here. As we all know, Rhea is the most dynamic and thrilling of the worlds in orbit around Saturn, and I'm certain that the short shrift it's been given infuriates you all to the point of aneurysm. A combination of sucktastic downsampling on the raws page, smeared Saturnshine, and equatorial-ridge envy doomed this beautiful visit to oblivion. As I've had the pleasure of taking a day off to play with these (thanks Emily for that awesome Selected ISS Data page!) I'm proud/drunk to present The Forgotten Flyby.
-------------------- ...if you don't like my melody, i'll sing it in a major key, i'll sing it very happily. heavens! everybody's all aboard? let's take it back to that minor chord...
Exploitcorporations on Flickr (in progress) : https://www.flickr.com/photos/135024395@N07/ |
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Aug 28 2008, 05:21 AM
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SewingMachine Group: Members Posts: 316 Joined: 27-September 05 From: Seattle Member No.: 510 |
Just a few odds and ends before I sign out...too tired (ahem) to finish up the parting global mosaic. Yeah, the one with Saturn's big yellow butt in the background. I hereby throw down ye olde gauntlet to ugordan to complete or collaborate on That Thing. If the backdrop is somewhat consistent, it would be freaking stunning. A clear filter version should be posted here soon.
Sorry for being lazy/absent/ugly/electrocuted/ect. I lurk religiously and post stingily. Except for today. For Doug and admins: (Politics, politics, politics {urp}, politics, politics, random pop-culture reference, image, politics, image, politics, politics, BLEEEARGGGHHH!!!, pentinence....{hiccup}, politics. And thanks for running the forum. Yes, I will get an image hosting account somewhere. There's a scarp in the middle of it all. -------------------- ...if you don't like my melody, i'll sing it in a major key, i'll sing it very happily. heavens! everybody's all aboard? let's take it back to that minor chord...
Exploitcorporations on Flickr (in progress) : https://www.flickr.com/photos/135024395@N07/ |
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Aug 29 2008, 08:01 PM
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Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
Sorry for being lazy/absent/ugly/electrocuted/ect. I lurk religiously and post stingily. Except for today. We've been missing you. Now get over to the HAPS thread pronto. -------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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Aug 30 2008, 11:02 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
I know I said I wouldn't be doing the color mosaic soon, but seeing EC's great version made me try it myself after all. Here it is in false colors (though I fiddled with color balance so it's false false color) and with Saturn removed (8.5 megabytes):
Also, color (but contrast stretched) view of the "splat" crater: And I might as well throw in an old Kodak moment of a sort, from the November 2005 flyby: -------------------- |
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