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[volcanopele]

As an early Christmas gift, CICLOPS and the Imaging team are pleased to announce the release of a number of Cassini images and maps as part of "Spectacular Sights from 10 AU" (though one is from near 5 AU
First up is a series of maps of the icy satellites of Saturn (Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Iapetus, and Phoebe). These maps incorporate much of the new data taken over the last few months at these mostly interesting (though some dead and boring) worlds. Note however, that the Rhea data from last month's encounter has not yet been incorporated into the basemap.

Rhea basemap
Dione basemap
Tethys basemap
Enceladus basemap
Mimas basemap
Iapetus basemap
Phoebe basemap

But that's not all! Also included in this release are some great images of Saturn and Titan in color and a movie of Rhea and Dione.

Dione against the disk of Saturn
Saturn crescent
Titan crescent
Rhea eclipsing Dione

Eta Carinae Nebula

Enjoy!

[Tman]

Wow! Again two beautys of Saturn!
I love this blue behind the shadows.

A nice fluently show from Rhea and Dione too
"...a scheme called interpolation" ...means that those additional frames between the original pics are copys of the left and right originals. I guess there have to be a lot of them between.

[ugordan]

A nice fluently show from Rhea and Dione too
"...a scheme called interpolation" ...means that those additional frames between the original pics are copys of the left and right originals. I guess there have to be a lot of them between.

I, on the other hand, don't very much appreciate the interpolations like this. Especially since they seem to be done using the nearest neighbor method. They make the whole thing seem "false". I didn't like it on the Hyperion anim, didn't like it on the recent Iapetus anim and still don't like it.
Give me animation frames as they were originally taken is what I say

You can really tell how much it helps to be 10 AU closer to it...

How do you know it wasn't in fact several AU farther?