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Saturn Out Of Plane July 2006 - June 2007
jmknapp
post Nov 13 2005, 01:30 PM
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The Planetary Society website http://www.planetary.org/saturn/cassini_tour.html has a page with diagrams of the whole Cassini tour, including this series which runs from July 2006 to June 2007 where Cassini goes significantly out of the ring plane:



That will give some great perspective views of the rings. I've been playing with rendering this part of the tour, with the help of the ring images at Bjorn's page http://www.mmedia.is/~bjj/data/s_rings. Here's a part of one of those orbits:


Saturn movie (5MB MPG)

Still a bit of work to do to get the ring illumination/color right.


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post Nov 13 2005, 02:07 PM
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I can't wait to see Saturn's north pole and ring animations.
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- jmknapp   Saturn Out Of Plane July 2006 - June 2007   Nov 13 2005, 01:30 PM
- - Decepticon   I can't wait to see Saturn's north pole an...   Nov 13 2005, 02:07 PM
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- - scalbers   The Celestia Freeware package also does a nice job...   Nov 13 2005, 02:15 PM

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