Enceladus Jet Sources |
Enceladus Jet Sources |
Oct 10 2007, 05:20 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
New press release by the imaging team:
Cassini Pinpoints Hot Sources of Jets on Enceladus October 10, 2007 (Source: Space Science Institute) CICLOPS link to the release here. One thing I was curious about tiger stripe naming - why didn't they switch "Baghdad" and "Cairo" so we have a nice A,B,C,D progression? I can only imagine it was done on purpose, but why? -------------------- |
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Oct 9 2010, 09:42 AM
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Rover Driver Group: Members Posts: 1015 Joined: 4-March 04 Member No.: 47 |
Yet another great spot, Gordan! And a beautiful image!
Elliptical halo caused by scattering by the ring particles of light coming from Enceladus? http://www.atoptics.co.uk/fz409.htm Whatever it is, it's pretty cool. |
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Oct 9 2010, 09:46 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Elliptical halo caused by scattering by the ring particles of light coming from Enceladus? The problem with that is that this halo would be very very small. Remember the narrow-angle camera has a FOV of 0.35 so any ice halos we're familiar with here on Earth couldn't possibly completely fit into the frame. Not even in the wide angle camera. I'll have to check if anything of the sort is visible in earlier observations, although they were nowhere as close to such a high phase angle. -------------------- |
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