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Posted by: Adam Hurcewicz Sep 28 2011, 06:52 AM

Hey, this is my animation of Enceladus flyby at 01 Oct 2011 13:52 UTC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7677fLNFEY

Posted by: Adam Hurcewicz Oct 3 2011, 10:58 AM

Take a look to RAW site, Enceladus and Dione are come

Here my colour version of Enceladus from 1 Oct 2011 flyby!

N00176776 as G
N00176777 as R
N00176779 as B

... and Dione 2 Oct. 2011

Posted by: Juramike Oct 4 2011, 01:32 AM

Dione red-blue anaglyph:

Posted by: Juramike Oct 4 2011, 04:56 PM

15-frame animated GIF showing Dione rotating. From raw images taken on October 1, 2011:

[Animated GIF: click to animate]

Posted by: Phil Stooke Oct 4 2011, 06:55 PM

Nice movie! It's designed to show the terminator crossing the Amata structure in the middle of the grooved terrain.

Phil

Posted by: Adam Hurcewicz Oct 4 2011, 07:13 PM

QUOTE (Juramike @ Oct 4 2011, 06:56 PM)

15-frame animated GIF showing Dione rotating. From raw images taken on October 1, 2011:

Wow, very nice!

Posted by: Ian R Oct 5 2011, 10:52 AM

Nice one Mike!

It's prompted me to put together this more 'arty' GIF animation, showing a bright object passing through the NAC's field of view:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10795027@N08/6213525851/sizes/o/in/photostream/

Posted by: Juramike Oct 5 2011, 02:58 PM

Titan behind the rings, October 4, 2011:

(This really shows off the asymmetry of the two hemispheres, the North Polar Hood is there, but there's no south polar hood, and the two hemispheres are evenly lit.)

Posted by: charborob Oct 5 2011, 05:12 PM

Images of a Rhea-Titan mutual event are down (see http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/?start=1&storedQ=2391276).

Posted by: ugordan Oct 5 2011, 05:18 PM

Shame there seems to be an occurence of overexposed satellites in the recent mutuals. I would have expected their software to make picking good exposures almost an afterthought given how they must have built a large dataset on each satellite's brightness as a function of phase angle by now.

Posted by: Phil Stooke Oct 5 2011, 05:25 PM

You're right... so probably there's some other purpose behind the longer exposures.

Phil

Posted by: jasedm Oct 7 2011, 07:26 PM

Nice catch by the Cassini team - Epimetheus occulted by Enceladus' North pole:

Posted by: ngunn Oct 7 2011, 08:00 PM

Great shot. Are we also seeing here some vertical structure in the rings at lower right?

Posted by: ugordan Oct 7 2011, 08:17 PM

If you mean if there's one of those spiral-wound structures noticeable at the ring ansa, it's possible, but the raw jpegs are too thrashed to make it out clearly.

Posted by: ngunn Oct 7 2011, 08:36 PM

I was referring to the bright streak containing three brighter peaks that is very prominent in the middle of the rings, starting roughly below the rightmost limb of Enceladus and extending towards the right.

Posted by: ugordan Oct 7 2011, 08:41 PM

Oh, that. Since it's too far past equinox to show any dramatic ring topography, my WAG would be that's a clump of forward-scattering dust in an otherwise pretty empty region. What is that, anyway - Cassini division?

Posted by: ngunn Oct 7 2011, 09:10 PM

OK, sounds good, but I didn't know there were localised clumps of material like that in the Cassini Division (if that's indeed the location). I was thinking something out-of-plane might appear brighter by being more directly illuminated - maybe a spoke-type feature or moon wake?? It's pretty striking anyhow.

Posted by: Juramike Oct 8 2011, 03:02 AM

Saturn in MethanoVision [MT3,MT2,CB2] composite October 6, 2011:

Last remnants of the Serpent Storm doing a little yin yang thing up there?

Posted by: jasedm Oct 8 2011, 05:58 AM

QUOTE (ngunn @ Oct 7 2011, 10:10 PM)