Cassini image database & updates, And notifications of PDS data releases |
Cassini image database & updates, And notifications of PDS data releases |
Dec 25 2006, 08:52 PM
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IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2254 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
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' . |
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Apr 6 2011, 10:34 PM
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IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2254 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
Great images, especially the one of Dione which shows a real landscape at this resolution, overall with an alien appearance but there are some features that look a bit similar to terrestrial landscapes.
And regarding Dione, I now see that there are more images of it than I thought. I found the Dione images using a database search with target='DIONE' but for these images Saturn is the target for some reason (and the viewing geometry applies to Saturn) but the target description is 'DIONE' and the target list includes Dione. Weird - and I obviously need to modify my database queries. By the way I decided to replace the image in the starting message of this thread with a significantly improved version. I discovered that I had forgotten to rotate it so that south was originally up (north is up in the new version). Perhaps more importantly, I have now aligned the color channels much more carefully. |
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