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Apr 4 2012, 08:11 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
Helene from distance ~7000 km. Date 18.6.2011. Red, green a blue (BL1) filter. Resolution is ~42 m/pix.
EDIT: I uploaded new version of the image without three prominent specks of noise. -------------------- |
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Apr 4 2012, 04:42 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10164 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Beautiful - people, it really repays enlarging it and panning around that amazing surface.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Apr 5 2012, 01:41 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 214 Joined: 30-December 05 Member No.: 628 |
Regarding the term "panning" Phil, I can't enlarge it enough for panning because the whole image still fits comfortably on my screen.
Did you download a more detailed version from a different location? No complaints; I just want to be sure I am successfully following your suggestion. What I can see at the present resolution is indeed fascinating in both its detailed dust effects and in the macro resemblance to a really spooky skull. |
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Apr 5 2012, 04:15 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10164 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
I downloaded this and opened it in Photoshop, enlarged the view and moved around within it. Any other image viewer would do. I often find that merely enlarging a file by two or three times lets me see much more in it without any processing.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Apr 5 2012, 06:14 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 52 Joined: 16-November 06 Member No.: 1364 |
Wonderful!!!
And what a bizarre little world... |
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Apr 6 2012, 04:12 AM
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Lord Of The Uranian Rings Group: Members Posts: 798 Joined: 18-July 05 From: Plymouth, UK Member No.: 437 |
Great shot, Daniel (BTW, north is down in this view).
To pan and zoom this image without opening any software, you can use the zoom.it website: http://zoom.it/LdNG -------------------- |
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Apr 6 2012, 04:44 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Oh now that is a very cool tool. The original image is only 1000 pixels across, much smaller than my screen. But somehow, when I zoom, I notice features that I did not notice when it was at "actual size." Like: there are not very many craters visible, but each one seems to be modified in a different way, depending on where it was located and (presumably) how old it is.
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Apr 6 2012, 12:40 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 903 Joined: 30-January 05 Member No.: 162 |
Maybe print a b/w version (on regular paper, not photo sock) and see if the kidlings want to color one for us to see?
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Apr 6 2012, 03:13 PM
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Lord Of The Uranian Rings Group: Members Posts: 798 Joined: 18-July 05 From: Plymouth, UK Member No.: 437 |
Ooooh! Now I want a pair of Helene photo socks for Christmas!
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Apr 7 2012, 10:09 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
"Beautiful"
"Wonderful!!!" "Great shot" Thanks! BTW, north is down in this view Good point, I forgot on any orientation corrections. ...there are not very many craters visible, but each one seems to be modified in a different way, depending on where it was located and (presumably) how old it is. It is questionable, if resolution of Helene's images (not only this one) is generally sufficient for clear distinguishing between age of smooth regions and age of "scratchy" surface. This "scratchy" surface looks like some kind of older, harder crust, but it is only my idea, because I don't know about any scientific paper about geology of Helene. -------------------- |
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Apr 9 2012, 02:40 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 220 Joined: 13-October 05 Member No.: 528 |
absolutely beautiful! thanks for posting this.
My firdt reaction is "Wow!". A moment later it was "Huh? What the....?" will be most interested to hear what the science folk have to say about this. Is it a flying rubble pile? Or would "flying dust pile" be closer to the truth? |
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Apr 9 2012, 02:30 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10164 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
An older harder crust that is being stripped away does look like the best explanation for this. If the crust lies over loose regolith, that might allow downslope movement to undermine the crusty patches and gradually eat away at them. But why do we have a crust like this? The surface of Calypso may be similar.
One of the big puzzles with these small moons is why they are so different. Janus and Epimetheus seem to have patches of dark smooth material in depressions. Helene and maybe Calypso have extensive evidence of downslope movement like this. Hyperion is incredibly rough, Telesto very smooth. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Apr 9 2012, 05:27 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3233 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
It is questionable, if resolution of Helene's images (not only this one) is generally sufficient for clear distinguishing between age of smooth regions and age of "scratchy" surface. This "scratchy" surface looks like some kind of older, harder crust, but it is only my idea, because I don't know about any scientific paper about geology of Helene. Exactly. I haven't seen work yet on crater counting on Helene (and between the different terrains) but the differences in the appearance between craters in the bedice and in the smoother, dust covered regions could be the result of either post impact modification or differences in initial target properties. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Apr 10 2012, 12:09 AM
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IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2251 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
As machi's great color composite reveals, Helene's color is pretty bland in visible light. Color differences are somewhat more pronounced if IR3-GRN-UV3 is used as RGB. Here is an enhanced IR3-GRN-UV3 composite; color differences become obvious by greatly increasing the color saturation:
The color of the smooth terrain is clearly different from the color of the 'grooved' terrain (different composition?). The grooved terrain is more yellowish. It should be noted that the bright colors (especially red and blue) that are visible at several locations near the limb are not real features. Due to Cassini's rapid motion and the time between the GRN image and the other two images I had to warp the images to get a proper color composite and this was especially difficult near the limb. I probably need a high quality shape model of Helene to be able to do this properly (there are many nice stereo pairs of Helene and the shape of Helene's limb could also be used for constructing shape models). |
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Apr 10 2012, 01:13 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
LSD Helene!
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