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Guest_Sunspot_*	Jul 7 2005, 08:46 PM Post #1
Guests	It's amazing how different the atmosphere looks depending on whic filter is used to view it: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=44702 http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=44701 http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=44700

alexiton View Member Profile	Jul 8 2005, 01:47 PM Post #2
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 18 Joined: 1-July 05 Member No.: 425	Awesome! Gas giants are a neglected commodity in my mind. From point of view of mere principle, seem like perfect realm for creating untold interesting entropy dissipating structures. I think people grossly underestimate the weirdness afoot in such environments...

Phil Stooke View Member Profile	Jul 18 2005, 12:58 PM Post #3
Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10265 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227	Another atmosphere thingy... Here: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...2/N00037105.jpg is a very cool image of Pandora and the almost edge-on rings. But look at Saturn in the background - very close to the terminator. Those shadings look like cloud shadows to me. I don't recall them ever being reported before on Saturn, though Voyager 2 saw then at Neptune. 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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Jul 24 2005, 12:41 PM

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Agree, Phil, this image is breathtaking!
I made an enhancemet of these 3D clouds/waves by subtracting uniform shading:

Anyway, this isn't a new even for Cassini:
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...fm?imageID=1370

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Guest_Sunspot_*	Aug 20 2005, 10:33 PM Post #5
Guests	Some gorgeous views of the swirling atmosphere in the latest batch of RAW images. http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=47909 And another view of the refraction of the rings by the atmosphere: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...3/N00038646.jpg

dilo View Member Profile	Aug 24 2005, 07:08 PM Post #6
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150	Amazing view through the rings... http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...3/N00038988.jpg -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -

um3k View Member Profile	Aug 24 2005, 08:03 PM Post #7
Member Group: Members Posts: 345 Joined: 2-May 05 Member No.: 372	QUOTE (dilo @ Aug 24 2005, 03:08 PM) Amazing view through the rings... http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...3/N00038988.jpg Wha-they're nothing but a giant, scratched-up ND filter!

aharris View Member Profile	Sep 4 2005, 02:46 AM Post #8
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 10-August 05 From: Daphne, AL Member No.: 459	I agree. The information and especially the images coming from Cassini are truly incredible. This should really encourage us to get out to the remaining outer planets with orbiters...... QUOTE (alexiton @ Jul 8 2005, 08:47 AM) Awesome! Gas giants are a neglected commodity in my mind. From point of view of mere principle, seem like perfect realm for creating untold interesting entropy dissipating structures. I think people grossly underestimate the weirdness afoot in such environments... -------------------- --- Andy Harris

Guest_Richard Trigaux_*	Sep 4 2005, 08:28 AM Post #9
Guests	QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jul 18 2005, 12:58 PM) Another atmosphere thingy... Here: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...2/N00037105.jpg is a very cool image of Pandora and the almost edge-on rings. But look at Saturn in the background - very close to the terminator. Those shadings look like cloud shadows to me. I don't recall them ever being reported before on Saturn, though Voyager 2 saw then at Neptune. Phil These cloud ripples evoke water flowing in a river over an underwater obstacle. If we keep with this analogy, there may be some invisible disturbance under the visible cloud layer, perhaps a kind of cumulus cloud. Such ripples can form on Earth above mountains or cumulus, but they are usually not visible, unless there is a continuous layer of clouds.

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