Cassini image database & updates, And notifications of PDS data releases Options

[Bjorn Jonsson]

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' .

[volcanopele]

This release covers the time period from January 1 to March 31, 2006. No RADAR SAR swaths were taken during this period of time. There were three Titan flybys: T10 (ORS covering anti-Saturnian hemisphere), T11 (ORS low-phase inbound over sub-Saturnian hemisphere), and T12 (ORS moderate phase over anti-Saturnian hemisphere). T11 has some good observations, never messed with T10 or T12 too much since it covered the same territory we had seen over and over again without adding to much new information.

Beyond Titan, there is a decent sequence at Enceladus from Rev20 (look for images in the N1516153055 through N1516171418 range). There are also decent Rhea observations during each orbit (Rev20-21-22). rev22 has some decent Rhea saturn-shine images. Finally, Rev21 has a couple of observations of Tethys over Penelope crater.

EDIT: actually, there was a distant SAR look on T12. I'll try to post that within an hour.

EDIT again...: and that isn't available yet. Hopefully it will be up by Monday.

[ugordan]

Here's an 8 frame animation showing the late January 2006 "flyby" of Iapetus from this PDS batch. Closest approach was around 880 000 km.


Three of the frames are natural color RGB composites, the rest are stretched color IR/G/UV processed to match natural color views. Images have been magnified 2x for better visibility.

[Michael Capobian...]

Here's an 8 frame animation showing the late January 2006 "flyby" of Iapetus from this PDS batch. Closest approach was around 880 000 km.

Wow. That's a really good way to tie the Moat/Snowman region to eastern Cassini Regio. That's the first time I've noticed the large crater on the eastern edge of the Landslide Basin. And it's interesting that the claw marks are parallel to the tic-tac-toe ridges. (It really would be nice to have some official names for these features. )

Michael