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ugordan

Mar 14 2006, 08:22 PM

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A neat RGB set recently came down, similar to another one previously released. It features Tethys, Mimas lit by saturnshine and another small moon at the right edge of the image, suspended in the rings.

My money is on either Epimetheus or Janus.
At the time, distance from Saturn was 2.6 million km and phase angle was around 112 degrees.

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Guest_AlexBlackwell_*

Mar 14 2006, 08:28 PM

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QUOTE (ugordan @ Mar 14 2006, 08:22 PM)

My money is on either Epimetheus or Janus.

I'm pretty sure it's Janus. In fact, one of the two "Kodak moments" planned for S19 is a March 13, 2006, image very similar to the thumbnail you posted.

ugordan View Member Profile	Mar 14 2006, 08:38 PM Post #3
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523	Wow. Are you actually involved in the project or just know people who know people? Janus it is, then! -------------------- www.flickr.com/photos/ugordan

Guest_AlexBlackwell_*	Mar 14 2006, 08:46 PM Post #4
Guests	QUOTE (ugordan @ Mar 14 2006, 08:38 PM) Wow. Are you actually involved in the project or just know people who know people? Neither, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night

Guest_AlexBlackwell_*

Mar 14 2006, 09:59 PM

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QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Mar 14 2006, 08:28 PM)

I'm pretty sure it's Janus. In fact, one of the two "Kodak moments" planned for S19 is a March 13, 2006, image very similar to the thumbnail you posted.

As I understand it, the other KODAKMMT planned for S19 is slated for April 2, 2006:

Guest_BruceMoomaw_*	Mar 14 2006, 11:21 PM Post #6
Guests	QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Mar 14 2006, 08:46 PM) Neither, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night So THAT explains my successes.

pat

Mar 15 2006, 12:32 PM

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QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Mar 14 2006, 09:28 PM)

I'm pretty sure it's Janus. In fact, one of the two "Kodak moments" planned for S19 is a March 13, 2006, image very similar to the thumbnail you posted.

It is indeed Janus

ugordan

Mar 19 2006, 09:55 AM

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Here's an (approximately) true color shot of Saturn taken on March 16 with the wide angle camera. I wish there were more of these lovely crescent, PR shots.

Note a small, dark speck just below the ringplane. According to Joe Knapp's excellent raw image analysis tool, it's either Pan or Epimetheus.

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dilo View Member Profile	Mar 19 2006, 07:21 PM Post #9
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150	Did someone noticed this family portrait? (Rings, Enceladus, Rhea and... Pandora?): http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...9/N00055061.jpg Edit: using raw image analysis tool, just verified is Pandora and... we should have also Atlas somewhere! -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -

pat View Member Profile	Mar 20 2006, 01:41 PM Post #10
Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 76 Joined: 19-October 05 Member No.: 532	QUOTE (dilo @ Mar 19 2006, 08:21 PM) Did someone noticed this family portrait? (Rings, Enceladus, Rhea and... Pandora?): http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...9/N00055061.jpg Edit: using raw image analysis tool, just verified is Pandora and... we should have also Atlas somewhere! Ahh, its not Pandora, its Janus. And its Tethys not Rhea.

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Mar 20 2006, 02:14 PM

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QUOTE (ugordan @ Mar 19 2006, 10:55 AM)

Here's an (approximately) true color shot of Saturn taken on March 16 with the wide angle camera. I wish there were more of these lovely crescent, PR shots.

Note a small, dark speck just below the ringplane. According to Joe Knapp's excellent raw image analysis tool, it's either Pan or Epimetheus.

Without knowing which images this is all I can say is that its too big and too far out of the ring plane to be Pan so I'd go with Epimetheus.

ljk4-1 View Member Profile	Apr 20 2006, 11:29 AM Post #12
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430	A Crescent Saturn Wed, 19 Apr 2006 - This view of Saturn shows a thick crescent of the planet bathed in sunlight with the rest in shadow. Three moons are visible in this photograph: Mimas, Ryea and Tethys. Cassini took this photograph on March 11, 2006 when it was approximately 2.8 million kilometers (1.8 million miles) from Saturn. http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/ti...rn.html?1942006 -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined, and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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