Galileo Imagery, I couldn't find a topic not specific to one moon.... |
Galileo Imagery, I couldn't find a topic not specific to one moon.... |
Dec 9 2007, 07:50 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4405 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Here is a combination of all of Galileo's global color views of the Galileans. I have left out the large Europa mosaic because much of its color data is pulled from other orbits. I have also left out colorized views. Due to inconsistent filter selection, there some variation between images. I posted the Europa set in another thread, but I figured I would add the views of Ganymede and Callisto.
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Apr 24 2009, 12:25 AM
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IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2256 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
Having seen what Cassini has done at Saturn I'm becoming surprised there aren't any really nice Jupitershine images of the Galileans (especially Io's Jupiter facing hemisphere). This shouldn't have been very difficult since Jupiter is much brighter than Saturn. Of course the downlink was severely limited but despite this I'm a bit surprised.
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Apr 24 2009, 02:12 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1598 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
Having seen what Cassini has done at Saturn I'm becoming surprised there aren't any really nice Jupitershine images of the Galileans (especially Io's Jupiter facing hemisphere). This shouldn't have been very difficult since Jupiter is much brighter than Saturn. Of course the downlink was severely limited but despite this I'm a bit surprised. Given the bandwidth limitations where they probably couldn't return every sunlit Io image they had, would Galileo have been focused on IR images of the volcanically active areas when Io was in eclipse and nearby? I'd think bandwidth coupled with Io looking interesting in non-visible wavelengths would but the nails in the coffin of visible Jupitershine images. |
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