[Enceladus] What am I looking at?, Weird distortion here! |
[Enceladus] What am I looking at?, Weird distortion here! |
Nov 28 2010, 05:45 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 74 Joined: 9-October 10 From: Victoria, BC Member No.: 5483 |
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawi...?imageID=216998
What's going on here? The limb of Enceladus looks like it's all melted like wax! I'm going to hazard a guess at some kind of really strange image saturation from an over-bright Saturn maybe? If so, I've not seen that look so 'curvy' before. The next image in the sequence is also strange: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawi...?imageID=216997 |
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Nov 28 2010, 06:51 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 74 Joined: 9-October 10 From: Victoria, BC Member No.: 5483 |
OK, I suspected as much. I just thought it looked very odd!
What about this one? http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawi...?imageID=228082 (If you do a search for Enceladus on the Raw Images page, this is on page 3) You can barely see Enceladus in the middle of the image, but the rest has all these splotches on it - I'm just wondering if those are just normal dust blotches, or if Cassini had flown through a plume or something shortly before the image was taken? |
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