Kraken Mare through polarisers, Cassini looks for lake shine |
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Kraken Mare through polarisers, Cassini looks for lake shine |
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 ![]() |
The latest 'looking ahead' gives a nice description of the pi-transfer, introducing the curious concept of a 'rev' that is only half a revolution. It also contains this sentence:
"With Kraken Mare near the field of view, scientists can also use this effort to see how using polarization filters affects the appearance of large bodies of liquid methane on Titan." Titan followers here may remember why I'm excited about that. http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/uploads...78901_thumb.jpg |
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Any news on this?
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 ![]() |
Is it finally time for a third post in this thread?
If I'm not mistaken this image is one of a pair taken with polarisers at 0 and 90 degrees: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...3/W00059373.jpg I suspect that Kraken Mare is marginally visible between 4 and 5 o'clock in this view. Now the question is: how are the filters oriented with respect to the picture frame? If they're horizontal and vertical that would put the lake at about 45 degrees to both. If I'm way off with all this somebody please tell me quick! |
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If our duck-pond revelation in another thread is true - then a specular reflection is going to be TINY and thus probably unresolvable.
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I agree, probably, but we won't know for sure without giving it a proper try. I'm not saying either that this was that attempt. Kraken Mare (if seen at all) is way too close to the limb there. BTW Doug, can you answer the question about Cassini's polariser orientations w.r.t. picture frame?
It's just the first time I've noticed a pair of images taken with 90 degree polarisers that may include some wet stuff. Forgive me for getting a little excited. |
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Page 3 here might be of use for the IRP90 and IRP0 filters (which are the ones that are used http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawi...?imageID=200189 ):
http://pds-rings.seti.org/cassini/iss/COIS....8.2_wac_fm.pdf edit: so I guess horizontal and vertical indeed. |
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Now there's an interesting thing. The latest distant Titan shots include a set of three with polarisers at 0, 60 and120 degrees. This was probably atmospheric study (is that a cloud streak near the centre?) but Kraken Mare was in view just a couple of days ago, so I'm wondering - well you know what I'm wondering.
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...0/N00155223.jpg |
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The thread from the dead returns! Three more today: 0, 60 and 120, and I think that's Kraken Mare at lower left. I can't see any obvious differences (but a three way rotating blink would be nice if any image hand fancies the job).
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...5/N00165578.jpg |
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Well, keep in mind that Kraken Mare is in the muck in these views, and that might limit any differences due to the use of different polarizers.
Good though to see the public image site get the real time stream, I wish we did too... ![]() -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Well, here we go again, and this time I think there may be a detectable effect. The images in question are N00172716 (P0 and CB2), N00172717 (P60 and CB2) and N001728 (P120 and CB2). It's my impression that the lake looks slightly darker, and hence more visible, in the P0 image than in the other two. Of course I have no idea whether the polarisation, if present, is happening at the lake suface or higher in the atmosphere.
Anyhow, I have a request which I hope will interest somebody with the necessary image processing skills. I would like to see ratio images with N00172716 and either, or each, of the other two. |
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Another set of three using polarisers with the lake in frame today. Again differences are not immediately obvious but somebody might like to take a closer look and maybe make a blink comparison.
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawi...?imageID=256691 http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawi...?imageID=256690 http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawi...?imageID=256689 |
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Here is another pair through IRP90 and IRP0 this time. The whole northern lake district fits neatly within the illuminated crescent here. Since it's been a while I'll explain again that I'm looking for brightness differences in the lakes caused by specular reflection of the sky (not of the Sun). And again I'm hoping to interest an imaging expert in creating a composite image by subtraction or whatever to see what may pop out. I would expect any differences to be subtle, approximately lake-shaped, and of opposite signs near 3 and 6 o'clock in the image.
Here are the images: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...6/W00090641.jpg http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...6/W00090640.jpg |
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Hi,
I don't know if anyone has replied to you via pm but I put the two images that you referred to together and applied a 'subtraction filter ' to it and came up with this. If it's along the lines of what you were looking for let me know and I may be able to process it further for you, I only used Photoshop so someone with more appropriate software may be able to do more. ![]() |
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