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Enceladus and Rhea, June 13, 2006

slinted View Member Profile	Jun 19 2006, 11:52 PM Post #1
Member Group: Admin Posts: 468 Joined: 11-February 04 From: USA Member No.: 21	Cassini captured Enceladus passing in front of Rhea back on June 13th in a 9 frame sequence. Enceladus' plume, while subtle, is readily apparent in all frames. First raw image 9 frame animation, centered on Enceladus From the JPL Solar System Simulator: Enceladus: 9 frames 400% scale, aligned and stacked

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ljk4-1 View Member Profile	Jun 20 2006, 06:27 PM Post #2
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430	The near light pillar behind the two moons give the image such an ethereal effect. Thanks for sharing. Has anyone checked the Voyager images of Enceladus to see if any of them by chance detected the geysers? Did Pioneer 11 image Enceladus at all? Just for the record, Pioneer 11 did record Titan's light and darker hemispheres, but no one noticed it at the time. Has anyone tried detecting the geysers from telescopes on or near Earth? The July, 2006 issue of Astronomy Magazine has some artwork of an erupting Enceladus geyser by Ron Miller (page 35), which I could not find online. I did find this PSI Newsletter from last summer on Enceladus: http://www.psi.edu/newsletter/summer05/Summer05.pdf http://www.psi.edu/hartmann/planets.html -------------------- "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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slinted Enceladus and Rhea, June 13, 2006 Jun 19 2006, 11:52 PM

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