New Hi-res Jupiter Maps from Cassini Options

[Toma B]

WOW!!!
5 years after flyby...

Cassini\'s Best Maps of Jupiter

[ElkGroveDan]

THAT's cool! thanks for the heads up.

Now I'm going to sit back and see what cool tricks our UMSF colleagues can do with this image. Anyone for a high res rotating spherical projection gif?

[helvick]

Now I'm going to sit back and see what cool tricks our UMSF colleagues can do with this image. Anyone for a high res rotating spherical projection gif?

Quick and dirty with Celestia. This is fairly heavily jpeg reduced but you get the idea. It's quite a nice map and the two small white oval storms that have subsequently become Red Junior /Oval BA are nicely visible.
Looks pretty cool alright spinning around. I'd post a video but avi's ain't allowed.

[ElkGroveDan]

Quick and dirty with Celestia. This is fairly heavily jpeg reduced but you get the idea. It's quite a nice map and the two small white oval storms that have subsequently become Red Junior /Oval BA are nicely visible.
Looks pretty cool alright spinning around. I'd post a video but avi's ain't allowed.

Darn if I don't owe you another beer, dude. Nice, very nice.

[Bjorn Jonsson]

Sorry to spoil the party but I made an even higher resolution map (7560x3780 pixels) several months ago. I just added a smaller version (2880x1440 pixels) of it to my website. Also the color balance of my map is probably more realistic, at least compared to what Jupiter looks like to me through a telescope. However, Jupiter's color is somewhat subjective.

And this may be nitpicking but the claim that the CICLOPS maps "are the most detailed global color maps of Jupiter ever produced" is obviously false . Even the full-size version of the map I made back in 2002 based on Voyager 2 images is bigger (5040x2520 pixels) .

Several renderings based on these maps can be seen on my Jupiter page.

[helvick]

Sorry to spoil the party

No spoiling for me at any rate - your imaging\rendering\texture work is awesome.

Anyway just to compare (hope you don't mind) :
Celestia movie of IO Eclipse shadow traversing Bjorn Jonsson's texture.
Celestia movie of IO Eclipse shadow traversing the Cassini Jupiter Map

Bjorn's does look more real to me too I must say but the Cassini texture is very vivid.

I know the textures aren't properly aligned - I have no idea what the correct position of 0 longitude at the time of the images would be so I left them as they were.

Thanks to Ian R for pointing out that these folks will host this. The files are quite small - both under half a meg so it would be neater to have them here. *Edit* Found a way to persuade GooglePages to host em so I changed the links so it's less jumping through hoops to get the files. Thanks all the same as that image hosting site should be useful for genuinely big stuff.

These use the Divx 5.2.1 codec so there may be problems viewing them.

Bjorn - if you have any problems with my using your texture just let me know I'll remove the video it ASAP.

[Bjorn Jonsson]

Bjorn - if you have any problems with my using your texture just let me know I'll remove the video it ASAP.

No problem. However, I cannot download the animation created using my map.

I know the textures aren't properly aligned - I have no idea what the correct position of 0 longitude at the time of the images would be so I left them as they were

The location of longitude 0 should be correct in my map, i.e. at the left/right edge (needless to say this is usually of minor importance).