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Ring Shadow Details, with long, bright clouds

SigurRosFan View Member Profile	Dec 12 2005, 02:41 PM Post #1
Member Group: Members Posts: 531 Joined: 24-August 05 Member No.: 471	PIA07650: Movement in the Shadows http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07650 10/29/05: -------------------- - blue_scape / Nico -

lyford View Member Profile	Dec 12 2005, 05:24 PM Post #2
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124	WOW - um - er - uh - just - wow! -------------------- Lyford Rome "Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test

antoniseb View Member Profile	Dec 13 2005, 01:36 PM Post #3
Member Group: Members Posts: 235 Joined: 2-August 05 Member No.: 451	QUOTE (SigurRosFan @ Dec 12 2005, 09:41 AM) PIA07650: Movement in the Shadows http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07650 10/29/05: I had thought that the ring shadows would make for some serious weather on Saturn, and this picture seems to do a great job of showing just that. Thanks!

remcook View Member Profile	Dec 13 2005, 09:37 PM Post #4
Rover Driver Group: Members Posts: 1015 Joined: 4-March 04 Member No.: 47	the two are not necesarily related. but they do make a pretty picture though

Rob Pinnegar View Member Profile	Dec 13 2005, 11:30 PM Post #5
Member Group: Members Posts: 509 Joined: 2-July 05 From: Calgary, Alberta Member No.: 426	QUOTE (remcook @ Dec 13 2005, 03:37 PM) the two are not necesarily related. but they do make a pretty picture though I don't know about that -- intuitively, one would expect the ring shadows to have a pretty large effect on Saturn's weather, especially in the upper parts of the atmosphere where internal heat sources are likely less important. In particular, the latitudes shadowed by the B Ring should get basically no sunlight at all for long periods. That's got to have some effect.

RNeuhaus View Member Profile	Dec 14 2005, 04:56 PM Post #6
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1636 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Lima, Peru Member No.: 385	The visibility features of atmosphere such as it reveals small, bright and puffy clouds with long filamentary streamers that are reminiscent of the anvil-shaped Earthly cirrus clouds that extend downwind of thunderstorms. Dark ring shadows hang over the scene while the planet rotates beneath. That means that the rings are semi-transparent so Cassini spacecraft is able to see the atmosphere features thru the rings. Rodolfo

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Dec 14 2005, 10:00 PM

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Tried to improve clouds visibility of this amazing image in both illuminated and shadowed portions (latter is negative due to solarization):

Moreover, I enhanced the shadowed clouds in order to make more evident their 3-dimensional structure...

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Tman View Member Profile	Dec 14 2005, 10:27 PM Post #8
Member Group: Members Posts: 877 Joined: 7-March 05 From: Switzerland Member No.: 186	Hi dilo, in fact the colorized Saturn looks now more 3-dimensional to me - even more than your second - very nice! -------------------- Peter MER filename decoding into local true solar time - MSL clock and filename decoding

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Same technique used for this just released image:

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Tman View Member Profile	Dec 14 2005, 10:35 PM Post #10
Member Group: Members Posts: 877 Joined: 7-March 05 From: Switzerland Member No.: 186	Hey, it's a most beautiful colored crystal ball -------------------- Peter MER filename decoding into local true solar time - MSL clock and filename decoding

dilo View Member Profile	Dec 14 2005, 11:26 PM Post #11
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150	QUOTE (Tman @ Dec 14 2005, 10:35 PM) Hey, it's a most beautiful colored crystal ball Even if final result is something psichedelic, I can assure you that my major intention was to make more visible faint contrast details... -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -

Airbag View Member Profile	Dec 15 2005, 12:00 AM Post #12
Member Group: Members Posts: 408 Joined: 3-August 05 Member No.: 453	QUOTE (dilo @ Dec 14 2005, 06:29 PM) Same technique used for this just released image: That reminded me right away of ELO's "Out of the Blue". Airbag

dvandorn View Member Profile	Dec 15 2005, 07:29 AM Post #13
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15	QUOTE (dilo @ Dec 14 2005, 05:26 PM) Even if final result is something psichedelic, I can assure you that my major intention was to make more visible faint contrast details... Yeah, but... like, wow, man! -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain

Bill Harris View Member Profile	Dec 15 2005, 07:45 AM Post #14
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3009 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105	and... uh... like, groovy, too. Ya know? --Bill -------------------- Dawn-- Ceres Pluto Encounter Rosetta Mission

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