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[tallbear]

Some nice ( IMHO) animations of some of the upcoming inclined orbits
for Rings have been posted.

http://geogdata.csun.edu/~voltaire/wallis/ANIMATIONS.html

the rev 77 segment is spectacular.....

[djellison]

Google around for Quicktime Alternative and H264 and you can play these without.

FWIW - the H264 codec is well well worth it - it is superb - and something I'm seriously looking at w.r.t. HD MER stuff in the not to distant future ( cough ahem S1K celebration movie hint cough ahem )

Doug

[angel1801]

I have Windows XP Pro. I had to download Quicktime 7.1 from the Apple web site to view the animations.

I have seen all three animations. And I will say that Rev 77 will we worth the wait!

[ugordan]

The orbit 77 vantage point is awesome, though I would have preferred the movie used a constant FOV, this way the perspective is noticeably distorted around periapse.
What struck me most is just how big Saturn will appear to Cassini's cameras. It'll take many, many wide-angle footprints to cover the whole planet and rings. It's gonna make one helluva Kodak moment marking the end of primary mission!