Saturn, Tethys, Mimas and more!, Another KODAK moment brought to you by Cassini |
Saturn, Tethys, Mimas and more!, Another KODAK moment brought to you by Cassini |
Mar 14 2006, 08:22 PM
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A neat RGB set recently came down, similar to another one previously released. It features Tethys, Mimas lit by saturnshine and another small moon at the right edge of the image, suspended in the rings.
My money is on either Epimetheus or Janus. At the time, distance from Saturn was 2.6 million km and phase angle was around 112 degrees. -------------------- |
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Mar 14 2006, 08:28 PM
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Mar 14 2006, 08:38 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Wow. Are you actually involved in the project or just know people who know people?
Janus it is, then! -------------------- |
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Mar 14 2006, 08:46 PM
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Mar 14 2006, 09:59 PM
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Mar 14 2006, 11:21 PM
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Mar 15 2006, 12:32 PM
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Mar 19 2006, 09:55 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Here's an (approximately) true color shot of Saturn taken on March 16 with the wide angle camera. I wish there were more of these lovely crescent, PR shots.
Note a small, dark speck just below the ringplane. According to Joe Knapp's excellent raw image analysis tool, it's either Pan or Epimetheus. -------------------- |
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Mar 19 2006, 07:21 PM
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Did someone noticed this family portrait? (Rings, Enceladus, Rhea and... Pandora?):
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...9/N00055061.jpg Edit: using raw image analysis tool, just verified is Pandora and... we should have also Atlas somewhere! -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Mar 20 2006, 01:41 PM
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Did someone noticed this family portrait? (Rings, Enceladus, Rhea and... Pandora?): http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...9/N00055061.jpg Edit: using raw image analysis tool, just verified is Pandora and... we should have also Atlas somewhere! Ahh, its not Pandora, its Janus. And its Tethys not Rhea. |
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Mar 20 2006, 02:14 PM
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Here's an (approximately) true color shot of Saturn taken on March 16 with the wide angle camera. I wish there were more of these lovely crescent, PR shots. Note a small, dark speck just below the ringplane. According to Joe Knapp's excellent raw image analysis tool, it's either Pan or Epimetheus. Without knowing which images this is all I can say is that its too big and too far out of the ring plane to be Pan so I'd go with Epimetheus. |
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Apr 20 2006, 11:29 AM
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A Crescent Saturn
Wed, 19 Apr 2006 - This view of Saturn shows a thick crescent of the planet bathed in sunlight with the rest in shadow. Three moons are visible in this photograph: Mimas, Ryea and Tethys. Cassini took this photograph on March 11, 2006 when it was approximately 2.8 million kilometers (1.8 million miles) from Saturn. http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/ti...rn.html?1942006 -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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