Rev 61 Enceladus (March 12 2008) |
Rev 61 Enceladus (March 12 2008) |
Mar 14 2008, 06:37 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 |
"Cassini probe failed to 'taste' moon's geysers in flyby"
Sometimes I am disappointed in New Scientist's sensationalist headlines. I guess they deserve to be compared to the Sun tabloid. |
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Mar 14 2008, 07:40 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 78 Joined: 29-December 05 Member No.: 623 |
And Slashdot has a similar wrong-headed take on this, based on the New Scientist article.
http://science.slashdot.org/science/08/03/14/1535236.shtml Can someone with a Slashdot account go set them straight? |
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Mar 14 2008, 07:48 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3241 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
One of the CICLOPS folks did in the last comment. I'll probably respond to him.
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Mar 14 2008, 09:17 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 121 Joined: 26-September 05 From: Philadelphia Member No.: 507 |
I like the departure/arrival movies! Reminds me of a Fritz Lang movie. German Expressionism meets space exploration. totally. i did one with ted stryks mariner images to mars a while back too. same weird nickelodeon old tyme effect on space travel. i did add a few things to make it smooth. noted on my blog what those items were. essentially 3 frames added to a 10 frame animation. -------------------- |
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Mar 15 2008, 05:04 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1669 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
These are fun images to work on with my map, particularly the north polar ones. First though I see I'll want to retool some of the limb fitting routines to work better with triaxial ellipsoids in this type of polar view.
-------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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Mar 15 2008, 06:04 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 45 Joined: 30-November 05 Member No.: 592 |
CIRS should have the real PRIZE data from this flyby ....
mapping of the S Polar region while Enceladus was in eclipse ( no sunlight to compete with the heat from the vents... ) Should be really interesting ..... but it's going to take them awhile to get the reconstructed pointing info .... T |
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Mar 15 2008, 07:04 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3008 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105 |
This flyby produced a real gem of science by "imaging" the vents with the CIRS when the room lights were off (eclipse). And the south polar region being illuminated by faint "saturn light" gives a secondary verification of the topography of the vents imaged.
I'd call the flyby planning brilliant. --Bill -------------------- |
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Mar 15 2008, 08:18 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: 14-March 08 Member No.: 4066 |
Thank you all for the kind words of the images and the video I posted - and yes, it does bring Fritz Lang and Murnau to my mind too! :)
During the flyby Cassini took about ten color images of Enceladus (10? 11?). I composited nine of them using the raw images. Some of the following images I already posted earlier, these are new a little bit better versions done with some more care, I even bothered to erase most of the cosmic rays. In all images filters IR3, GRN, UV3, CL -> RGB+luminance Approach. Dist.612000km, raw images:N00103726-29 Dist.316000km, raw images:N00103730-33 Dist.307000km, raw images:N00103734-37 Dist.225000km, raw images:N00103738-41 North pole. Dist.91000km, raw images:N00103752-55 Upper and lower parts B&W. Dist.65000km, raw images:N00103763-66 Outbound. In these images reflected lights give a different tint on each side of the moon. BTW: there's a bright blue-green spot near south pole. What is it? A mountain? Dist.131000km, raw images:N00103775-78 Dist.144000km, raw images:N00103779-82 Dist.213000km, raw images:N00103793-96 |
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Mar 17 2008, 07:33 PM
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Mar 19 2008, 07:13 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Since these places have names, we might as well be using them. Stu's "3" is Aladdin. The adjacent, more angular-outlined one is Ali Baba. Here's the Voyager view: Here is the complete Voyager view (Emily's post contained one frame of a mosaic). Ted -------------------- |
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Mar 21 2008, 01:44 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 29-December 05 From: NE Oh, USA Member No.: 627 |
All... NASA To Release New Details from Close Flyby of Saturn Moon
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=25007 Wednesday the 26th press conference at 2:00pm EDT. On NASA TV http://www.nasa.gov/ntv Craig |
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Mar 21 2008, 03:05 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 934 Joined: 4-September 06 From: Boston Member No.: 1102 |
Did anyone catch the The von Kαrmαn Series Lecture webcast last night? Did Dr. Hendrix give hints of what will be in the press conference?
-Floyd -------------------- |
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Mar 25 2008, 06:09 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1669 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
Here's a first cut with some Rev 61 images now in the map (both northern and southern hemisphere).
The full resolution version is here: http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/sos/sos.html#ENCELADUS Enjoy, Steve |
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Mar 25 2008, 08:39 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 655 Joined: 22-January 06 Member No.: 655 |
Thank you Steve - still the Web's best source for mapping information of this kind.
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Mar 26 2008, 06:49 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
News release of the Enceladus flyby. The plume is slightly warmer than expected and has organics!
Whoo-hoo! Anyone have the list of the organics detected and the relative amounts? http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press-rele....cfm?newsID=827 -Mike [EDIT: This would be the most expensive sparkling water ever tasted - and worth every penny!] -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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