Reorganization of the Cassini forums, Please read Options

[elakdawalla]

Today Bjorn and I did a lot of maintenance on the Cassini forums, which had gotten very untidy. I wanted to mimic the way the MER forums work, where the raw images discussion followed the ongoing mission, and wanted to separate conversations about science results and image processing. This is more or less how discussion has been happening in the Cassini forum anyway, but there was no rhyme or reason to which thread discussion was happening in, and it was difficult to figure out where to post.

So here's the new philosophy. There are three newly named subforums.

Cassini's ongoing mission and raw images: This used to be the "Icy Moons" subforum but now contains more. In here is one thread for each rev. As Cassini orbits Saturn, near each apoapsis, Jason Perry (volcanopele) writes a "Looking Ahead" article describing the next rev. The publication of that article makes a good point to start a new topic discussing the next rev. All of the posts relating to raw images from 2011 and 2010 have now been subdivided into the relevant threads for each rev. Please note the naming convention for each thread. I've attached a text file that has all the rev numbers and corresponding dates and targeted encounters.

Cassini general discussion & science results: This used to be the "Cassini General" forum. It's pretty much what it says; it's science discussion or mission discussion that is separate from the day-to-day operations of the spacecraft.

Cassini PDS: This is a new subforum where we've placed discussions of processing ISS and VIMS data from the PDS. Instead of dividing things by rev here, it seems to have been working in the past to divide things by target. For instance, there were preexisting topics on Dione and Enceladus image products, and this is where they now live.

Only the Titan subforum has been left unchanged. There are only about 4 people who regularly post in this subforum, and you seem to have worked out your own way of organizing things. That being said, it might not be a bad idea to bring your discussion over to the raw images forum with its rev-by-rev discussion. I'm curious to hear what you guys think about that.

Attached File(s)

 revs_and_targeteds.txt ( 4.67K ) Number of downloads: 1287

 

[Juramike]

I agree with Nigel.