Cassini Raw Images Options

[Juramike]

Wow! There are just some phenomenal images in this sequence!

Check out Rhea eclipsing another moon (Janus?), just visible as a bump: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...4/N00145792.jpg

And Rhea against Saturn with Janus right next door: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...4/N00145796.jpg

But for sheer high-contrast beauty, this is my absolute fave:

[nprev]

...Mike, you got that right. Mind-blowing!

Who would have thought that the reality of Saturn would be even better than a Chesley Bonestell painting??

[Astro0]

Here's a movie file of this sequence. Very cool indeed.
 Rhea_Janus_Saturn.wmv ( 896.15K ) Number of downloads: 433

[Bill Harris]

Check out Rhea eclipsing another moon (Janus?), just visible as a bump: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...4/N00145792.jpg

And, as a plus, there is a high-altitude haze layer visible in Saturn's atmosphere.

--Bill

[Hungry4info]

Amazing images =o!

Is that something? Moon? Background star? Noise?

Attached thumbnail(s)

 

[Juramike]

Here's a movie of the full sequence:

 Following_Rhea.mov ( 521.04K ) Number of downloads: 429


-Mike

[Littlebit]

...Mike, you got that right. Mind-blowing!

Who would have thought that the reality of Saturn would be even better than a Chesley Bonestell painting??

Wow! Best piece of space art since Apollo II!

[Juramike]

Some really neat moon shots!

Dione and Rhea:


Tethys and Enceladus


-Mike

[nprev]

I love these kinds of shots!

(Hope the rain's finally stopped for you, Mike!)

[Juramike]

Saturn in Methan-O-Vision as of November 12, 2009. N/S hemisphere assymetry.



RGB [CB2 IRP0, MT2 IRP0, Inv CL1 VIO*CB2 IRP0] with a HiPass filtered CB2 IRP0 overlay. Contrast adjusted and channel mixed.

-Mike

[ugordan]

Is this dark object a moon and if so, which one?


The bright point below obviously is a moon crescent, but this object shows no sunlit crescent even though this is obviously a very long exposure. Moon in eclipse? It's not a camera artifact as it moves between 3 frames and is motion-blurred in the blue frame, consistent with orbital motion.

The RGB composite above is from an observation targeting the E ring. Also, I thought the ring was much thicker, it looks pretty compressed above.

[Bill Harris]

RED, GRN and BL1 filters? 61220, -221, -222 ?

--Bill

[ugordan]

Yes.

[nprev]

That almost looks like a shadow of a moon rather than the object itself. Any idea what the solar illumination angle with respect to it is?

[ugordan]

I don't think it can be a moon shadow, Nick. The phase angle at the time was around 107 degrees and Cassini was 2.4 million kilometers away from Saturn. That viewing geometry isn't too favorable for diffuse ring viewing, but it does provide for a significant shadowed region around the right ring ansa (which I believe was the one imaged). For a point-like moon shadow, the sun would have to be behind Cassini.