Helene, best view so far, 17 August 2006 Options

[Phil Stooke]

Tomorrow - best view yet, less than 50,000 km. I hope we get a view of a different part of the surface than we've seen before.

Phil

[Phil Stooke]

Quite a nice orbit! The rhea color pics are very nice, ugordan.

Here are two composites of the Helene images. There is faint saturnshine, which should look a lot better when these images come out on PDS. Too bad we don't have one longer exposure, as in the Dione set, to make the dark side glow.

Phil

1. Three views during the flyby. There's quite a bit of rotation to provide stereo viewing.



2. These three plus the previous Cassini image and the Voyager view.

[volcanopele]

Quite a nice orbit! The rhea color pics are very nice, ugordan.

Here are two composites of the Helene images. There is faint saturnshine, which should look a lot better when these images come out on PDS. Too bad we don't have one longer exposure, as in the Dione set, to make the dark side glow.

Phil

Thanks Phil! I'll take a look at these on Monday. hopefully some detail can be pulled out of these but certainly the dark limb may still be helpful for shape modellers. Looking at these, Helene appears to be very oddly shapped, or at least very lumpy.