Rev 125 - Jan 19-Feb 4, 2010 - Titan T66, Prometheus Options

[Juramike]

Dione. Mosaic of four images. Severely warped, tweaked, cajoled, and finally beaten into submission to account for spacecraft motion:



(Raw images N00150251 and N00150252, accounting for the 75% of the image on the right, were left unmolested.)

Full resolution here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/4312865986/

-Mike

[Juramike]

Wide angle mosaic of unlit side of rings taken on January 27, 2010.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/4315144580/

At full resolution, at least 8 ring spokes can be seen in the B-ring.

[tedstryk]

Mike - I wasn't impressed, then I clicked "full resolution" - wow!

[elakdawalla]

I like the fact that you didn't correct the RGB separation of that little moon (must be Prometheus, I guess) near the ansa. Sometimes it's nice to leave that stuff in, and then let people ask why it looks like that -- it gives you an opportunity to explain the way color imaging works.

Agreed, coolness on the number of spokes!

[stevesliva]

Only three frames for this? What I was just looking at is only the rings and no Saturn.

Sunday, Feb. 7 (DOY 038)

Along with Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) and Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) science observations, the Spacecraft Operations Office performed a reaction wheel bias, the Magnetometer performed a downlink roll calibration, and the flight team had an opportunity for what is called a "Kodak Moment." A Kodak Moment as the name implies is an opportunity for an aesthetically pleasing image to be taken. Mission Planning identifies many such opportunities but only about one per sequence may be implemented, and only if the Navigation team is able to release an Optical Navigation image placeholder, and only if margins and workforce allow. For S57 the team was able to obtain a nice image of Titan, Rhea, the rings, and Saturn to add to the album.

[volcanopele]

I see the nightside of Saturn illuminated by the rings...

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...7/W00062957.jpg

[Juramike]

A couple more Prometheus images got posted from the Jan 27th flyby.
Here's an RGB composite of when it's crescent was thinnest.

[Juramike]

3 frame animation of RGB images from Cassini's January 27 2010 flyby:



Full res here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/4352313325/

source RGB composite images:
thin crescent: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/4351979611/
mid crescent: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/4353017468/
widest crescent: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/4352280765/

[Juramike]

A rework of an earlier mosaic that I did for another purpose and thought I'd link to it here.

It is a graphic that annotates and compares the Saturn Ring raw image mosaic of January 27, 2010 to PIA08389 (unlit side of rings mosaic). The Cassini raw image mosaic is enlarged 2x. Kinda cool to see how the brightness of the B-ring seems to vary around the ring - a phase angle backscatter thing?




The high (and I mean really big - 15,000 x 5,000) mosaic is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/4509772726/