Rev 61 Enceladus (March 12 2008) Options

[centsworth_II]

"Cassini probe failed to 'taste' moon's geysers in flyby"

Sometimes I am disappointed in New Scientist's sensationalist headlines.
I guess they deserve to be compared to the Sun tabloid.

[vexgizmo]

And Slashdot has a similar wrong-headed take on this, based on the New Scientist article.

http://science.slashdot.org/science/08/03/14/1535236.shtml

Can someone with a Slashdot account go set them straight?

[volcanopele]

One of the CICLOPS folks did in the last comment. I'll probably respond to him.

[mgrodzki]

I like the departure/arrival movies! Reminds me of a Fritz Lang movie. German Expressionism meets space exploration.

totally. i did one with ted stryk’s mariner images to mars a while back too. same weird nickelodeon old tyme effect on space travel. i did “add” a few things to make it smooth. noted on my blog what those items were. essentially 3 frames added to a 10 frame animation.

[scalbers]

These are fun images to work on with my map, particularly the north polar ones. First though I see I'll want to retool some of the limb fitting routines to work better with triaxial ellipsoids in this type of polar view.

[tallbear]

CIRS should have the real PRIZE data from this flyby ....

mapping of the S Polar region while Enceladus was in eclipse ( no sunlight
to compete with the heat from the vents... )

Should be really interesting ..... but it's going to take them awhile
to get the reconstructed pointing info ....

T

[Bill Harris]

This flyby produced a real gem of science by "imaging" the vents with the CIRS when the room lights were off (eclipse). And the south polar region being illuminated by faint "saturn light" gives a secondary verification of the topography of the vents imaged.

I'd call the flyby planning brilliant.

--Bill

[Spin0]

Thank you all for the kind words of the images and the video I posted - and yes, it does bring Fritz Lang and Murnau to my mind too! :)

During the flyby Cassini took about ten color images of Enceladus (10? 11?). I composited nine of them using the raw images. Some of the following images I already posted earlier, these are new a little bit better versions done with some more care, I even bothered to erase most of the cosmic rays.
In all images filters IR3, GRN, UV3, CL -> RGB+luminance

Approach.
Dist.612000km, raw images:N00103726-29 Dist.316000km, raw images:N00103730-33

Dist.307000km, raw images:N00103734-37 Dist.225000km, raw images:N00103738-41

North pole.
Dist.91000km, raw images:N00103752-55 Upper and lower parts B&W. Dist.65000km, raw images:N00103763-66

Outbound. In these images reflected lights give a different tint on each side of the moon.
BTW: there's a bright blue-green spot near south pole. What is it? A mountain?
Dist.131000km, raw images:N00103775-78 Dist.144000km, raw images:N00103779-82

Dist.213000km, raw images:N00103793-96

[jasedm]

I'd call the flyby planning brilliant.

--Bill

I agree wholeheartedly - talk about maximising opportunities!
Many plaudits to those involved in the flyby design.

[tedstryk]

Since these places have names, we might as well be using them. Stu's "3" is Aladdin. The adjacent, more angular-outlined one is Ali Baba. Here's the Voyager view:

Here is the complete Voyager view (Emily's post contained one frame of a mosaic).

Ted

[belleraphon1]

All... NASA To Release New Details from Close Flyby of Saturn Moon

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=25007

Wednesday the 26th press conference at 2:00pm EDT. On NASA TV http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

Craig

[Floyd]

Did anyone catch the The von Kármán Series Lecture webcast last night? Did Dr. Hendrix give hints of what will be in the press conference?
-Floyd

[scalbers]

Here's a first cut with some Rev 61 images now in the map (both northern and southern hemisphere).



The full resolution version is here:

http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/sos/sos.html#ENCELADUS

Enjoy,

Steve

[jasedm]

Thank you Steve - still the Web's best source for mapping information of this kind.

[Juramike]

News release of the Enceladus flyby. The plume is slightly warmer than expected and has organics!

Whoo-hoo!

Anyone have the list of the organics detected and the relative amounts?

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press-rele....cfm?newsID=827

-Mike

[EDIT: This would be the most expensive sparkling water ever tasted - and worth every penny!]