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dilo View Member Profile	Mar 14 2006, 05:14 AM Post #1
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150	Just to recall... In February 2005 a couple of mad team members correctly identified these features in the first flyby images, and one of them wrote: "what about the halo/plume in the bottom? If is real (not due to camera/lens artifacts or bright surface reflections), source probably lies in large meridional fractured regions" (see here). At that time, very few believed to this interpretation... -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -

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dvandorn View Member Profile	Mar 14 2006, 09:45 AM Post #2
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15	Yeah -- I also remember Jason assuring us all that it must be a camera artifact, since identical "plumes" had been seen on then-recent images of Rhea and Tethys. Of course, over the next few weeks, several people challenged that statement, and Jason backed off from it... but he sounded tremendously certain of it, at first. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain

Big_Gazza View Member Profile	Mar 14 2006, 11:37 AM Post #3
Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 66 Joined: 8-November 05 From: Australia Member No.: 547	QUOTE (dvandorn @ Mar 14 2006, 08:45 PM) Yeah -- I also remember Jason assuring us all that it must be a camera artifact, since identical "plumes" had been seen on then-recent images of Rhea and Tethys. Of course, over the next few weeks, several people challenged that statement, and Jason backed off from it... but he sounded tremendously certain of it, at first. -the other Doug Maybe Jason was just being coy about an investigation in progress, especially given the cr@p that his bosses gave him about his public revelation on the data recorder failure during the Titan T7 SAR pass over Mezzoramia. Can't blame him of course. I certainly wouldn't risk any unathorised (though indavertant) disclosures if it meant robbing the boffins of their thunder. Hell hath no fury like a boffin whose scoop is leaked...

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dilo 1000 posts ago... Mar 14 2006, 05:14 AM

Decepticon I remember that. Mar 14 2006, 09:18 AM

dvandorn Yeah -- I also remember Jason assuring us all that... Mar 14 2006, 09:45 AM

Big_Gazza QUOTE (dvandorn @ Mar 14 2006, 08:45 PM) ... Mar 14 2006, 11:37 AM

edstrick "Ain't life terrible?" Mar 14 2006, 10:41 AM

BruceMoomaw Yes, Dilo was absolutely bang on tgarget -- and re... Mar 14 2006, 11:57 AM

The Messenger The credit belongs to Cassini. Dilo gets to have a... Mar 14 2006, 04:17 PM

AlexBlackwell QUOTE (The Messenger @ Mar 14 2006, 04:17... Mar 14 2006, 05:15 PM

dilo Hold on guys! I don't want ABSOLUTELY to c... Mar 14 2006, 07:49 PM

AlexBlackwell QUOTE (dilo @ Mar 14 2006, 07:49 PM) Hold... Mar 14 2006, 08:57 PM

BruceMoomaw QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Mar 14 2006, 08:57... Mar 14 2006, 11:46 PM

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volcanopele I'm sorry some of you feel misled regarding th... Mar 14 2006, 04:43 PM

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