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 Jun 10 2005, 03:59 AM
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Check out the new multispectral Dione series! Here is one of the frames:
 Quite a lot of cracks! -------------------- |
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Jun 10 2005, 04:13 AM
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QUOTE (tedstryk @ Jun 9 2005, 08:59 PM) Check out the new multispectral Dione series! Here is one of the frames: Quite a lot of cracks!  Wow, I'll say. Color me surprised. I thought we might see the cracks localized, but instead it looks like their prevalence ranges from some to lots. Also, note the huge, eroded impact basin near top. The prevalence of the cracks means more than just an interesting thing about Dione. It provides stratigraphic evidence helpful to coming up with a relative age timeline that in turn provides a relative impact density history for the whole Saturn system. Good find! Of course, we can expect more cracks elsewhere in the Saturn system, and I daresay with so many moons that must have been geologically dead for a long while, we might end up with a surprisingly constrained *absolute* timeline -- that would be something! |
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tedstryk Dione! Jun 10 2005, 03:59 AM
tedstryk QUOTE (JRehling @ Jun 10 2005, 04:13 AM)Wow, ... Jun 10 2005, 04:31 AM Gsnorgathon I'm intrigued by that mountain on the limb at ... Jun 10 2005, 05:21 AM
Sunspot Where did that picture come from? The RAW website... Jun 10 2005, 10:30 AM Decepticon I don't think that Huge crater has been seen y... Jun 10 2005, 12:06 PM Phil Stooke Here is the giant basin in its true discovery imag... Jun 10 2005, 01:19 PM Decepticon ^ Thanks for that the info Phil. So they kinda k... Jun 10 2005, 09:31 PM dilo I made this mosaic from best two pictures; it cont... Jun 11 2005, 04:35 PM Myran QUOTE Gsnorgathon wrote:
I'm intrigued by tha... Jun 14 2005, 02:10 AM Phil Stooke The picture I posted earlier (link at bottom of re... Jun 14 2005, 03:49 AM Myran Yes I stand corrected Phil, the central peak crate... Jun 14 2005, 03:32 PM ilbasso The central crater peaks on Dione's biggest cr... Jun 14 2005, 09:03 PM volcanopele The mountain is located at ~35S, ~105W so that cra... Jun 15 2005, 06:06 PM Phil Stooke The new Dione observations have been added to Ste... Jun 16 2005, 01:00 PM scalbers QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jun 16 2005, 01:00 PM)Th... Jun 16 2005, 06:37 PM Bart There's a new CHARM presentation on the Cassin... May 26 2006, 10:12 PM |
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