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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!

[jmknapp]

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.

That's just terrific. I downloaded one map at full res & it's 14960x7860! Great to zoom in on areas and see so much detail.

As for Christmas proper, ISS-wise, here's a possible Christmas "Tiny Tim" (don't know if it's planned):

date/timeUTC/moon/distanceKM/%NAC FOV

DEC25 00:45 TELESTO 21,499 25%

And another little guy on Christmas eve?

DEC24 20:48 PROMETHEUS 138,000 17%

I believe the best resolution of Prometheus to date was from 4x further away. How about letting him in on the reindeer games?