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Iapetus Encounter In January
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post Nov 29 2004, 04:38 PM
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I heard about a peak on Iapetus that may be taller than Olympus Mons on Mars. I was wondering if the RADAR instrument will be used in the January encounter to verify this. What is the maximum distance the RADAR can be used?
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- pioneer   Iapetus Encounter In January   Nov 29 2004, 04:38 PM
- - Decepticon   I have an animation of this flyby. It shows what t...   Nov 30 2004, 03:25 AM
- - YesRushGen   Please! Can you post it here?   Nov 30 2004, 02:13 PM
- - Decepticon   It's 13.7 Mb I think I would have to do a f...   Dec 1 2004, 12:48 AM
- - volcanopele   In addition to the encounter on December 30, we ca...   Dec 1 2004, 04:41 PM
- - Bjorn Jonsson   I did an animation showing 24 hours of the Iapetus...   Dec 6 2004, 01:03 PM
- - Bjorn Jonsson   These three stills show Iapetus near the time of c...   Dec 7 2004, 08:58 PM
- - YesRushGen   WOW!!!   Dec 7 2004, 11:44 PM
- - OWW   In the meantime two smaller Iapetus WOWs : http...   Dec 8 2004, 02:31 PM
- - tedstryk   How close will Cassini come to Iapetus during Tb?   Dec 8 2004, 02:55 PM
- - YesRushGen   QUOTE (tedstryk @ Dec 8 2004, 02:55 PM)How cl...   Dec 8 2004, 03:52 PM
- - volcanopele   Wow, those images got release quickly I anticipa...   Dec 8 2004, 05:27 PM
- - volcanopele   Here, BTW, is a look at those mountains by Voyager...   Dec 8 2004, 05:32 PM
- - Decepticon   SO cassini will use Radar on this approach?   Dec 8 2004, 10:14 PM
- - volcanopele   QUOTE (Decepticon @ Dec 8 2004, 03:14 PM)SO c...   Dec 8 2004, 10:38 PM
- - alan   Before the last Titan encounter I noticed many raw...   Dec 9 2004, 02:59 AM
- - alan   the all seeing eye http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mult...   Dec 15 2004, 10:47 PM
- - Sunspot   QUOTE (alan @ Dec 9 2004, 02:59 AM)Before the...   Dec 15 2004, 11:03 PM
- - CosmicRocker   QUOTE (Sunspot @ Dec 15 2004, 05:03 PM)Iapetu...   Dec 16 2004, 05:27 AM
- - Decepticon   Will Cassini start to take some approach images so...   Dec 16 2004, 02:58 PM
- - alan   Some early science results for Iapetus In the sam...   Dec 18 2004, 11:25 PM
- - Decepticon   Help!!!! I've been trying to ...   Dec 20 2004, 03:55 PM
- - Decepticon   Double post.   Dec 20 2004, 03:55 PM
- - alan   Strange, it works for cassini up to July 2, 2004 ...   Dec 20 2004, 04:42 PM
- - Decepticon   New PICS!! And this was from Dec 18! ...   Dec 23 2004, 01:27 AM
- - CosmicRocker   Wow!   Dec 23 2004, 05:02 AM
- - alan   Looks like only the dark side will be sunlit at cl...   Dec 24 2004, 12:10 AM
- - Decepticon   Looking at this map does anyone know what side wil...   Dec 24 2004, 09:24 PM
- - alan   I can't get JPL's solar sysyem simulator t...   Dec 25 2004, 12:15 AM
- - Bjorn Jonsson   Actually the view from Titan is significantly diff...   Dec 25 2004, 11:25 PM
- - alan   Beautiful work Bjorn. I guess this isn't very...   Dec 26 2004, 03:11 AM
- - Bjorn Jonsson   Wow ! http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/i...   Dec 27 2004, 12:15 AM
- - Sunspot   There's a small bump on the limb just past the...   Dec 27 2004, 12:40 AM
- - alan   Upsidedown?   Dec 27 2004, 12:50 AM
- - volcanopele   QUOTE (Sunspot @ Dec 26 2004, 05:40 PM)There...   Dec 27 2004, 12:57 AM
- - volcanopele   QUOTE (alan @ Dec 26 2004, 05:50 PM)Upsidedow...   Dec 27 2004, 12:59 AM
- - alan   Three impact basins? On stretched image I see at 1...   Dec 27 2004, 01:32 AM
- - volcanopele   QUOTE (alan @ Dec 26 2004, 06:32 PM)Three imp...   Dec 27 2004, 01:39 AM
- - alan   Will Cassini get close enough to determine whether...   Dec 27 2004, 03:44 AM
- - Decepticon   I thought this moon was werid before, now its just...   Dec 27 2004, 04:26 AM
- - Decepticon   Check this link out for some refreshed Voyager Map...   Dec 27 2004, 06:07 AM
- - BruceMoomaw   Jason's stretched image makes it clear that Ia...   Dec 27 2004, 02:15 PM
- - alan   Crazy idea: Iapetus was a larger differentiated ob...   Dec 27 2004, 03:18 PM
- - David   QUOTE Crazy idea: Iapetus was a larger differentia...   Dec 27 2004, 05:05 PM
- - volcanopele   QUOTE (alan @ Dec 27 2004, 08:18 AM)Crazy ide...   Dec 27 2004, 05:08 PM
- - alan   QUOTE Um, and what happened to the other two-third...   Dec 27 2004, 06:09 PM
- - alan   Anyone try using an unsharp mask on the images of ...   Dec 27 2004, 07:34 PM
- - volcanopele   QUOTE (alan @ Dec 27 2004, 12:34 PM)Anyone tr...   Dec 27 2004, 07:52 PM
- - alan   Wish I had Photoshop. Looking on the web I see th...   Dec 27 2004, 08:00 PM
- - Decepticon   ^ I wish I understood the question, I'm not th...   Dec 27 2004, 08:55 PM
- - alan   If it is done like in the link I referred to it wi...   Dec 27 2004, 09:26 PM
- - Roby72   Iapetus with its three impacts looms larger and la...   Dec 28 2004, 12:10 AM
- - volcanopele   nice. Looks likes the raw images page is about a ...   Dec 28 2004, 02:59 AM
- - Decepticon   My try at it..   Dec 28 2004, 03:08 AM
- - tedstryk   Where did you get the tri-color data? Or did you ...   Dec 28 2004, 03:18 AM
- - Decepticon   I colorize the monochrome data. As said before th...   Dec 28 2004, 03:22 AM
- - Decepticon   Odd, there is very little approach images of Iapet...   Dec 28 2004, 10:29 PM
- - Sunspot   QUOTE (Decepticon @ Dec 28 2004, 10:29 PM)Odd...   Dec 28 2004, 11:49 PM
- - volcanopele   I know.... as soon as yesterday's opnavs show ...   Dec 29 2004, 12:05 AM
- - volcanopele   I know.... as soon as yesterday's opnavs show ...   Dec 29 2004, 12:06 AM
- - MizarKey   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Dec 28 2004, 04:06 PM)I ...   Dec 29 2004, 12:15 AM
- - SFJCody   They're up Iapetus   Dec 29 2004, 12:17 AM
- - volcanopele   QUOTE (MizarKey @ Dec 28 2004, 05:15 PM)QUOTE...   Dec 29 2004, 12:43 AM
- - alan   I've been seeing a faint linear feature along ...   Dec 29 2004, 01:00 AM
- - Sunspot   QUOTE (alan @ Dec 29 2004, 01:00 AM)I've ...   Dec 29 2004, 01:06 AM
- - tedstryk   Wow, and this is three or four days before closest...   Dec 29 2004, 01:11 AM
- - volcanopele   here they are   Dec 29 2004, 01:18 AM
- - volcanopele   here is a time sequence Updated middle frame   Dec 29 2004, 01:20 AM
- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (tedstryk @ Dec 29 2004, 01:11 AM)What ...   Dec 29 2004, 01:23 AM
- - SFJCody   So... what's going on? Is this a world-spannin...   Dec 29 2004, 01:31 AM
- - volcanopele   QUOTE (SFJCody @ Dec 28 2004, 06:31 PM)So... ...   Dec 29 2004, 01:33 AM
- - alan   heres the fault in an earlier image look how high ...   Dec 29 2004, 01:40 AM
- - SFJCody   Operating on the 'see what sticks' princip...   Dec 29 2004, 01:50 AM
- - volcanopele   QUOTE (SFJCody @ Dec 28 2004, 06:50 PM)Operat...   Dec 29 2004, 02:06 AM
- - David   QUOTE I've been seeing a faint linear feature ...   Dec 29 2004, 03:00 AM
- - Decepticon   Where is Iapetus equator in that image volcanopele...   Dec 29 2004, 03:11 AM
- - alan   How about this: Iapetus is hit head on by a centau...   Dec 29 2004, 03:35 AM
- - volcanopele   QUOTE (Decepticon @ Dec 28 2004, 08:11 PM)Whe...   Dec 29 2004, 04:31 AM
- - alan   Decepticon, I think the dark area is is centered o...   Dec 29 2004, 04:38 AM
- - alan   Or maybe not Volcanopele responded while I was ty...   Dec 29 2004, 04:40 AM
- - alan   A giant grabbed hold of it and twisted it until it...   Dec 29 2004, 05:37 AM
- - alan   This looks similar to the crater at the top center...   Dec 29 2004, 06:30 AM
- - Decepticon   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Dec 28 2004, 11:31 PM)QU...   Dec 29 2004, 12:00 PM
- - alan   QUOTE But I think that bulge is real.. I remember...   Dec 29 2004, 06:55 PM
- - Decepticon   Cassini Page Update! Video Flyby. QUOTE Targ...   Dec 29 2004, 08:41 PM
- - alan   Description of Iapetus flyby http://www.planetary....   Dec 29 2004, 10:23 PM
- - tedstryk   From the Cassini website? _____________________ ...   Dec 30 2004, 12:54 AM
- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (tedstryk @ Dec 30 2004, 12:54 AM)From ...   Dec 30 2004, 01:00 AM
- - Decepticon   Even at the current distance the Images must me Mo...   Dec 30 2004, 01:46 AM
- - BruceMoomaw   (1) Ah. So, judging from the Planetary Society...   Dec 30 2004, 06:44 AM
- - MizarKey   QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Dec 29 2004, 10:44 PM)(1...   Dec 30 2004, 03:38 PM
- - tedstryk   I remember going to the library to scope out every...   Dec 30 2004, 03:58 PM
- - Decepticon   Before the Internet Space News was very hard to ge...   Dec 30 2004, 04:18 PM
- - volcanopele   QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Dec 29 2004, 11:44 PM)(1...   Dec 30 2004, 05:11 PM
- - DEChengst   QUOTE (Decepticon @ Dec 30 2004, 04:18 PM)Whe...   Dec 30 2004, 05:32 PM
- - tedstryk   I remember "Neptune All Night." I was 1...   Dec 30 2004, 05:41 PM
- - Decepticon   I was 14 years old during the neptune flyby. Trito...   Dec 30 2004, 06:30 PM
- - David   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Dec 30 2004, 05:11 PM)2)...   Dec 30 2004, 06:35 PM
- - alan   I noticed something odd about the latest images of...   Dec 30 2004, 07:56 PM
- - Decepticon   Mapping Coverage... http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/...   Dec 30 2004, 10:32 PM
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