Saturn's Rings To Shine As Never Before |
Saturn's Rings To Shine As Never Before |
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Sep 16 2006, 10:19 AM
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http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features/feature20060915.cfm
Ring scientists have been waiting for this. Finally, after more than two years orbiting Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft reaches one of the ultimate vantage points. The rings should shine with majesty worthy of the "Jewel of the Solar System." |
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Oct 27 2006, 07:02 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1887 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110 |
A different way of seeing the rings as never before: visible all the way around without being obstructed by Saturn (simulation only now, images later)
http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/wspace?t...=1&showsc=1 http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/wspace?t...=1&showsc=1 |
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Oct 27 2006, 07:33 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Cassini already had a similar viewpoint 16 days ago. This is when we got images of the south pole.
I doubt Cassini will capture an all-encompassing mosaic here because: 1. The angular size of the ring system is huge, around 40 and 30 degrees, respectively. This makes it too wide even for the wide-angle camera which has a 3.5 degree FOV. 2. Cassini is near periapsis and a prolonged imaging sequence (such as this one would have to be) would take the s/c quite far and the imagery would be distorted, requiring fancy reprojections. We'll probably get south pole images again, though. -------------------- |
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