New Iapetian image series |
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Dec 8 2006, 11:19 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 288 Joined: 28-September 05 From: Orion arm Member No.: 516 |
Hi,
nice pic Phil - I didn't notice the 2 originals on the JPL/NASA page at all. It'll may help to measure the depth of Snowman A and the hight of its central peak... Have you tried to combine some of the Nov.27th images, probably getting some colored ones? Bye. |
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Jan 9 2007, 10:49 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 288 Joined: 28-September 05 From: Orion arm Member No.: 516 |
Hallo,
one probably better resolved and enlarged pic of the last far-encounter is on the JPL/NASA page. Date: 2006-11-27 Distance: ~2 mio km Resolution: 12 km/pixel Sadly no color composite... Bye. |
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Jan 9 2007, 11:49 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Sadly no color composite... Me, I've stopped expecting color composites altogether. It's as though they're taboo for the team. That said, they do manage to pull off a good sharpening/deconvolution job on the grayscales. -------------------- |
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Feb 13 2007, 12:10 PM
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Lord Of The Uranian Rings Group: Members Posts: 798 Joined: 18-July 05 From: Plymouth, UK Member No.: 437 |
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Feb 14 2007, 01:34 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 509 Joined: 2-July 05 From: Calgary, Alberta Member No.: 426 |
Is Roland the prominent crater at the 11 o'clock position?
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Feb 14 2007, 09:44 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1619 Joined: 12-February 06 From: Bergerac - FR Member No.: 678 |
My version made from one RVB picture (saturation at 200%) and 10 b&w stacked and added pictures. 200% approx. size.
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Feb 14 2007, 11:16 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Pink Iapetus, now that's something you don't see every day!
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Feb 14 2007, 02:58 PM
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Feb 14 2007, 02:59 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 114 Joined: 6-November 05 From: So. Maryland, USA Member No.: 544 |
Is Roland the prominent crater at the 11 o'clock position? Yes. Here's the Voyager-based map showing the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Iapetus, which closely matches this image. Roland is at the top. Michael |
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Feb 14 2007, 04:07 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10226 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
ugordan: "Pink Iapetus, now that's something you don't see every day!"
It's a Valentine! Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Feb 14 2007, 05:08 PM
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Feb 14 2007, 05:25 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
This could turn into a drug-related discussion... You mean something like: "There are no bad drugs. Just bad trips." ? -------------------- |
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Feb 14 2007, 11:25 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Huh...that "yin-yang" aspect makes Iapetus look like one of the hemispherical views of Fritz Leiber's The Wanderer...art imitating life in yet another subtle way, albeit decades in advance.
Just struck me also how deep & pronounced all these craters are in comparison to those on the inner large icy moons. Is this difference perhaps due to fallout from Enceladus on the latter, as discussed on another thread, or are we seeing evidence of a thicker crust on Iapetus? -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Feb 15 2007, 12:00 AM
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Huh...that "yin-yang" aspect makes Iapetus look like one of the hemispherical views of Fritz Leiber's The Wanderer...art imitating life in yet another subtle way, albeit decades in advance. Just struck me also how deep & pronounced all these craters are in comparison to those on the inner large icy moons. Is this difference perhaps due to fallout from Enceladus on the latter, as discussed on another thread, or are we seeing evidence of a thicker crust on Iapetus? Remembering that Iapetus is a startling outlier (literally and figuratively) in terms of its distance from its primary (only likely captured asteroids rival it among the natural satellites in the solar system), I suggest that its distance is the prime causative factor. Look at the crusts of Mercury and the Moon and the Moon's maria. They are all three "old". The oldest crust there is not much more than 25% older than the youngest. But the rate of cratering is profoundly different: The cratering rate changed so sharply around 4 GYA that relatively minor differences in age led to tremendous differences in the preserved-for-all-time proportions of craters left behind. I think the difference between Iapetus on the one hand and Rhea on the other (virtually identical size and distance from the Sun) is that the heat of proto-Saturn kept Rhea slushy just a bit longer, letting its primordial lumps from coalescing round out and its largest proto-impacts to fade into the slush. Iapetus cooled faster and has kept its original lumps in a way that no body outside the asteroid belt could have because all the planets are too large and all the other midsize satellites are too close to their primaries. As a result, Ceres and Iapetus are less spherical than Rhea, Titania, and Oberon, and even some of the smaller icy satellites of Saturn and Uranus. The large craters are just another manifestation of the big, early impacts having been left untouched by any general crustal slushiness during that period. |
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Feb 15 2007, 04:24 AM
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or are we seeing evidence of a thicker crust on Iapetus? To extend this discussion, consider Iapetus accreting from the primordial chaos. Iapetus (or more accurately, the proto-Iapetus) pokes along in its' orbit at 5000 KPH (or was it MPH? no matter) and takes ~80 days to loop around Saturn. Its' accretion process took much longer than any other 'big time' satellite in the solar system. During this longer coalescense, the Al27 in the incoming materials had longer to radiate its' heat to space, and Iapetus had longer to radiate the collisional heating from impacts that formed it. Iapetus will be the satellite most accurately we can describe as cold formed. The crust will have enormous bearing strength. As we saw in the Cassini pix, the lumpy, facety surface of Iapetus exists to this day. The 'cat scratch' feature (IIRC, SW of 'landslide crater') might record an extremely deep penetration into the solid body of Iapetus by the impactor that made the 'landslide basin'. Assuming a formation via external agency of the equatorial ridge structure long after Iapetus accreted, the structure rests on the surface, is 20 km high (60,000+ feet high!!!), and to date, in the Cassini photos, we see no faulting parallel to the ridge. Additionally, to date, we see no signs of volcanism, past or present, no geysers, plumes, mud pots or warm spots. Internal heat sources have been inoperative at 'softening' the crust for a very long time. Something else reducing the heating to the interior of Iapetus ids it's distance from Saturn. Granted, Iapetus is tide locked to Saturn today, but of all the major satellites in the solar system, tidal braking of Iapetus was uniquely slow. Any power dissipated this way had ample time to radiate away in the cryogenic environment, to no or little effect. |
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