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[ugordan]

Apparently, I stumbled across a temporary version of the Cassini home page that had a true color composite of Titan and Enceladus crescents, a very old one from the raws. It linked to some new movies here.

The five or so new ones are at the top of the page.

Meanwhile, a couple of minutes later the image entry was removed. I guess that's tomorrow's release that somehow slipped through. The image itself wasn't even up on the Photojournal.

[Bart]

I like the Pan clip too!

One thing about it confuses me though. I've found what appear to be the source images on the raw image browser (e.g. http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=74372 ), and there's a discrepancy between the distance listed for the raw images and the movie. The closest image indicates it was taken from 425,392 km, but the release info with the movie says the images were taken at 209,000 km.

Which one is correct?

Is the difference due to a later refinement of Cassini's trajectory vs. the predict?

Bart

[dilo]

I like the Pan clip too!

Yes, nice but.... damn, why they always truncate image sequence one instant before ring plane crossing???
I want to see perfectly edge on rings, but in 2 years of Cassini activities I never saw it!!!
Did I missed the image or simply they avoid to take it in order to safely re-orient spacecraft during each plane crossing?

...meanwhile, enjoy this animation from Jun,16 sequence:

The big one is Rhea, do someone recognize the small, fast moon passing behind it?

[Bob Shaw]

The big one is Rhea, do someone recognize the small, fast moon passing behind it?

Marco:

It's Shirley. Always was a fast one, our Shirl!

Bob Shaw

[dilo]

A new beautiful sequence of sunglow backscattered from ring A:

(start images W00016495-98 / W00016503-06; halved size)