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Saturn from Galileo
Paolo
post Nov 24 2007, 10:41 AM
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I don't know whether this has ever been reported in the forum.
During E18, in December 1998, Galileo took some camera calibration pictures of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. This is one of the clearest views of Saturn (untreated "raw" image). However, I cannot make out Uranus and Neptune from their raw image. I think they are somewhere between the cosmic rays and radiation blemishes...

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volcanopele
post Nov 24 2007, 10:34 PM
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Oh, you're right:

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08899

sorry, forgot about that. Though I will note that the smudge to the left of Jupiter is Ganymede and Europa. The smudge to the right of Jupiter is Io.


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post Nov 25 2007, 02:27 AM
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I re-did the image. The old version was done pre-crash, so I have no idea what I did before. The color is based on three near infrared wavelengths (which is all that Galileo took).

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post Nov 25 2007, 09:21 AM
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QUOTE (tedstryk @ Nov 25 2007, 03:27 AM) *
I re-did the image. The old version was done pre-crash, so I have no idea what I did before. The color is based on three near infrared wavelengths (which is all that Galileo took).


That's definitely better than E18, in fact
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