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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Cassini's ongoing mission and raw images _ Rev 158 - Dec 3-23, 2011 - Dione D3, Titan T79

Posted by: charborob Dec 9 2011, 07:49 PM

Mutual events fiesta:
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawimagedetails/index.cfm?imageID=248061
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawimagedetails/index.cfm?imageID=248029

Go to the http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/?start=1&storedQ=2410061 for the complete sequences (animation anybody?)

Posted by: Ian R Dec 9 2011, 10:11 PM

I haven't done one of these in a while ...

Posted by: Juramike Dec 11 2011, 12:17 AM

Methanovision [MT3,MT2,CB2] composite of December 9 images. A high altitude swirl persists at the far left of the image.

Posted by: Juramike Dec 11 2011, 03:44 PM

Dione and Titan (heavily manipulated, of course, details here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/6492896941/in/photostream/)

Posted by: ugordan Dec 11 2011, 05:12 PM

Nice one, Mike!
A minor nit, though - you have north pointing down.

Posted by: Ian R Dec 12 2011, 12:19 AM

Mike, those composites are the ones I always have trouble with, so that gets a big 'thumbs-up' from me.

Meanwhile, here's another RGB view of the latest Titan event on the raw page:

Posted by: titanicrivers Dec 12 2011, 02:39 AM

QUOTE (Ian R @ Dec 11 2011, 06:19 PM)

Meanwhile, here's another RGB view of the latest Titan event on the raw page:

Thats a beauty Ian ! Was working on the same Titan-Rhea event myself ... put it in the Titan bin

Posted by: Ian R Dec 12 2011, 12:45 PM

Thanks! I've replaced it with (I hope) a better version ...

... and I've had to fill that same Titan bin a few times over the years!

Posted by: Adam Hurcewicz Dec 12 2011, 02:22 PM

QUOTE (titanicrivers @ Dec 12 2011, 03:39 AM)

Thats a beauty Ian ! Was working on the same Titan-Rhea event myself ... put it in the Titan bin

It's hard to do but I did

My version of Titan and Rhea from Cassini

Posted by: ugordan Dec 12 2011, 06:11 PM

My version of one of the easy frames:

Posted by: Adam Hurcewicz Dec 12 2011, 09:47 PM

QUOTE (ugordan @ Dec 12 2011, 07:11 PM)

My version of one of the easy frames:

Wow, it's great ! Fantastic view toi atmosfere of Titan.

Posted by: Adam Hurcewicz Dec 12 2011, 11:06 PM

On Cassini RAW images is new jpegs from Dione flyby

This photos are impresive !

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS71/N00178757.jpg

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS71/N00178764.jpg
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS71/N00178765.jpg

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS71/N00178766.jpg
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS71/N00178767.jpg
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS71/N00178768.jpg
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS71/N00178769.jpg
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS71/N00178770.jpg
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS71/N00178771.jpg
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS71/N00178772.jpg

Posted by: Astro0 Dec 12 2011, 11:46 PM

Here's a quick animation of two sequences.
The first is 3 frames and the second is 4 frames.
Images are rotated, contrasted, cropped and reduced in size.

File is linked http://astro0.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/dione_mutuals.gif.

Edit: Cassini's news release http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/cassinifeatures/feature20111212/.

Posted by: Astro0 Dec 13 2011, 01:18 AM

Here's a mosaic with some of the surface features of Enceladus. (Edit:Thanks Bjorn)

Not sure on the orientation here. Got myself lost in the stitching.

A combination of images from approximately 23-27,000kms distance

Large version http://astro0.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/enceladus_surface_full.jpg. Warning 3.3mb

Posted by: Astro0 Dec 13 2011, 07:24 AM

One more for good measure.

Posted by: Bjorn Jonsson Dec 13 2011, 11:15 AM

QUOTE (Astro0 @ Dec 13 2011, 01:18 AM)

Not sure on the orientation here. Got myself lost in the stitching.

A combination of images from approximately 23-27,000kms distance

Great mosaic and probably the best coverage so far of most/all of this terrain. North is to the upper right (probably more right than up but I don't have time to check it now). The feature at the top of the mosaic is a bit north of the equator and slightly east of longitude 180 (and BTW this is Enceladus but the filename contains the string 'dione').

Posted by: Ian R Dec 13 2011, 11:53 AM

Outbound WAC view of Dione, Saturn and the edge-on rings, rendered in IR-G-UV:

Posted by: Marz Dec 15 2011, 06:32 PM

QUOTE (Astro0 @ Dec 12 2011, 05:46 PM)

Here's a quick animation of two sequences.

Wow! impressive sequence!
Thanks so much for creating the animation sequence, since I was trying soooo hard to understand the sudden limb brightening in the raw images below: Guess I didnt discover cryovolcanism on Epimetheus.

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS71/N00178766.jpg
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS71/N00178767.jpg

Posted by: ugordan Dec 22 2011, 06:56 PM

Titan on 2011-12-16, NAC RGB, 1.48 million km:

Main haze layer over the south pole appears to have "sunk" deeper than elsewhere while the high altitude haze still looks thicker over there.