Enceladus Jet Sources |
Enceladus Jet Sources |
Oct 10 2007, 05:20 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
New press release by the imaging team:
Cassini Pinpoints Hot Sources of Jets on Enceladus October 10, 2007 (Source: Space Science Institute) CICLOPS link to the release here. One thing I was curious about tiger stripe naming - why didn't they switch "Baghdad" and "Cairo" so we have a nice A,B,C,D progression? I can only imagine it was done on purpose, but why? -------------------- |
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Oct 8 2010, 11:42 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1887 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110 |
The dome appears to continue through the shadow and may wrap all the way around, perhaps its an optical effect of the e-ring related to the lighting
QUOTE Light reflected off Saturn is illuminating the surface of the moon while the sun, almost directly behind Enceladus, is backlighting the plumes. Below is your image with the histogram equalized. |
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Oct 9 2010, 12:15 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
I can't see how it would be a lighting effect on the ring unless the sun happened to be precisely behind Enceladus. The phase angle was high, 174 degrees, but even that is still 17 NAC FOVs away from the sun!
It does seem to fit inside Enceladus' Hill sphere and is elongated in the N-S direction, though. -------------------- |
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