Small Moons On A String |
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Small Moons On A String |
 Dec 15 2005, 04:06 PM
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PIA07653: Close to the Shepherd Moons
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07653 10/29/05 - 459,000 km from Pandora:  PIA07647: Pandora on a String http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07647 10/29/05 - 455,000 km from Pandora:  More moons on Saturns string? 
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Dec 15 2005, 10:34 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10146 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
The one with two moons was Cassini's picture of the day on Dec. 15. Unfortunately they misidentified the moons - the most elongated one is Prometheus, they reversed the names by mistake, in the press release. Maybe it will be corrected (Jason?)
And here I've made a composite of the whole set of images of Prometheus from that sequence. Three times enlarged, and merged to reduce jpg artifacts. This is similar in orientation to the best Voyager view. Phil
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Dec 16 2005, 12:53 PM
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Dec 15 2005, 11:34 PM) The one with two moons was Cassini's picture of the day on Dec. 15. Unfortunately they misidentified the moons - the most elongated one is Prometheus, they reversed the names by mistake, in the press release. Maybe it will be corrected (Jason?) And here I've made a composite of the whole set of images of Prometheus from that sequence. Three times enlarged, and merged to reduce jpg artifacts. This is similar in orientation to the best Voyager view. Phil
 The release on The JPL webpage is usually identical to the one on the ISS team page. Oddly enough in this case they are (now?) different. The text on the ISS team page correctly identifies the satellites. Cassini Project: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...fm?imageID=1903 ISS Team: http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=1649 |
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Dec 16 2005, 07:02 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10146 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Here's the companion image of Pandora. These are both the trailing sides. This is opposite the side of Pandora seen best by Voyager. It is 3 times enlarged, and a composite of seven images to subdue JPG artifacts.
Phil 
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