[Enceladus] What am I looking at?, Weird distortion here! |
[Enceladus] What am I looking at?, Weird distortion here! |
Nov 28 2010, 05:45 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 74 Joined: 9-October 10 From: Victoria, BC Member No.: 5483 |
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawi...?imageID=216998
What's going on here? The limb of Enceladus looks like it's all melted like wax! I'm going to hazard a guess at some kind of really strange image saturation from an over-bright Saturn maybe? If so, I've not seen that look so 'curvy' before. The next image in the sequence is also strange: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawi...?imageID=216997 |
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Nov 28 2010, 07:10 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3231 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
Yep, those are the WAC equivalent of dust donuts. We can remove those via flatfielding when we calibrate this data.
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