Rev 161 - Feb 9-Mar 1, 2012 - Titan T82, Saturn storm watch, Titan monitoring, Enceladus plumes |
Rev 161 - Feb 9-Mar 1, 2012 - Titan T82, Saturn storm watch, Titan monitoring, Enceladus plumes |
Feb 9 2012, 11:14 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Saturn storm watching, Titan cloud tracking at apoapse, CIRS prime during the Feb 19 Titan flyby.
For me the highlight will be February 21 high-phase Enceladus imaging. Meanwhile, in the recent raw images, there's some black-and-white striped ones that are clearly the result of some hiccup in the transmission or reception of the data. I haven't seen this kind of error before. Anybody know what exactly happened to make the photos look like this? -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Feb 10 2012, 03:15 AM
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That looks a bit more like a computer hick up than transmission noise for the Jan 29 images .
But without being able to see the RAW data ???? only a guess |
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Feb 10 2012, 05:40 AM
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Feb 10 2012, 03:09 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 17-November 05 From: Oklahoma Member No.: 557 |
Here is the Looking Ahead write up for Rev 161: Link
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Feb 10 2012, 11:16 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Ack, forgot to include that in my first post. Thanks.
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Feb 11 2012, 05:33 PM
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It's a little disappointing there's no imaging of Pandora ~60,000km pass, 87 degree phase angle....
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Feb 11 2012, 06:29 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 699 Joined: 3-December 04 From: Boulder, Colorado, USA Member No.: 117 |
One way we're saving money in the Equinox Mission (operations costs (as opposed to science team costs) are only 60% what they were in the prime mission), is to simplify sequences, and that includes limiting the number of targets per orbit. Saves wear and tear on the reaction wheels, too. So sometimes we have to pass up on tempting targets.
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Feb 12 2012, 03:28 AM
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a few shots of rev 161
things that "might" have been shot or Could have if you were in the same orbit https://picasaweb.google.com/10269590129139...1/CassiniRev161 |
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Feb 12 2012, 08:35 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 655 Joined: 22-January 06 Member No.: 655 |
So sometimes we have to pass up on tempting targets. John Understood of course. No criticism intended of the (I'm sure) difficult choices as to what constitutes best use of the spacecraft and its operational budget. a few shots of rev 161 things that "might" have been shot or Could have if you were in the same orbit https://picasaweb.google.com/10269590129139...1/CassiniRev161 The link isn't working John |
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Feb 12 2012, 09:28 PM
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QUOTE The link isn't working John odd it is a google picassia web album i just clicked it using Mozilla seamonkey 2.7 and from firefox 10.01 and it works ,with add block and no-script running on both oops, google changed the default from everyone to no one google is starting to be a pain in the bleep |
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Mar 3 2012, 04:10 AM
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-------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Mar 3 2012, 04:29 AM
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-------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Mar 5 2012, 04:57 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
Enceladus Image composite from February 20th raw images. (Mash-up of multiple images. 4 of the jet, and one showing the crescent.)
[This is not the image I was shooting for. I was trying to do a cool-o animated sequence showing a changing perspective of the jets using a crescent view from a previous image. But it didn't work out to be so interesting - the perspective didn't change] -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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