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New Occultation Movie And Dione Pictures
dilo
post Sep 24 2005, 07:18 AM
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Breathtaking Dione+Ring+Saturn images (RGB filters the wide angle one, false color R+CL+G the close up):
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and amazing movie of Enceladus occulted by Tethys (if I'm not wrong)...
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There is also a smaller moon passing in front of the rings smile.gif ..it is Prometheus?


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post Sep 24 2005, 10:04 AM
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That's not Enceladus.. it's Tethys -- see Ithaca chasma and the craters. As Cassini gets closer, Dione's quite a bit closer to the spacecraft.

and yes, that last pic is out of sequence.
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- dilo   New Occultation Movie And Dione Pictures   Sep 24 2005, 07:18 AM
- - Toma B   Beautiful!!! Just Beautifull!...   Sep 24 2005, 08:42 AM
|- - dilo   Thanks, Toma. I'm not sure about last animatio...   Sep 24 2005, 09:24 AM
- - edstrick   That's not Enceladus.. it's Tethys -- see ...   Sep 24 2005, 10:04 AM
|- - Rob Pinnegar   QUOTE (edstrick @ Sep 24 2005, 04:04 AM)and y...   Feb 1 2006, 04:37 PM
- - edstrick   quick and dirty contrast stretch and sharpening. ...   Sep 24 2005, 10:12 AM
- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (dilo @ Sep 24 2005, 12:18 AM)There is ...   Sep 24 2005, 03:14 PM
- - volcanopele   For the NAC view of Dione against Saturn, the BL1 ...   Sep 24 2005, 11:13 PM
|- - dilo   Thanks, Jason. So this is the best true color matc...   Sep 25 2005, 06:49 AM
- - mike   Wow. Looking at an image like that, I get some va...   Sep 25 2005, 09:09 AM
- - ilbasso   These are the kinds of images that should be on th...   Sep 28 2005, 02:11 PM
- - ljk4-1   Speaking of occultations, does anyone know if anyo...   Jan 28 2006, 02:15 AM
- - pat   QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jan 28 2006, 03:15 AM)Sp...   Feb 1 2006, 03:06 PM

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