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Exquisite Saturn Images

paxdan View Member Profile	Jul 12 2006, 09:37 AM Post #1
Member Group: Members Posts: 563 Joined: 29-March 05 Member No.: 221	There are some gorgeous crescent saturn images coming down in the raws at the moment. You can really see how oblate saturn is.

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ugordan View Member Profile	Oct 13 2006, 07:40 AM Post #31
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3652 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523	Not exactly crescent images, but these raws are just... wow! South pole vortex, appears oval: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=85891 http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=85879 http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=85875 http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=85874 http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=85872 -------------------- www.flickr.com/photos/ugordan

dilo View Member Profile	Oct 24 2006, 07:46 PM Post #32
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150	...and now look at this: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...4/W00019111.jpg A true example of Cassini modern art...! -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -

ElkGroveDan View Member Profile	Oct 24 2006, 07:58 PM Post #33
Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197	QUOTE (dilo @ Oct 24 2006, 11:46 AM) ...and now look at this: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...4/W00019111.jpg A true example of Cassini modern art...! Jason must have been out late last night. I'm sure after a few cups of coffee the images will be back to normal. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.

volcanopele View Member Profile	Oct 24 2006, 08:05 PM Post #34
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23	QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Oct 24 2006, 12:58 PM) Jason must have been out late last night. I'm sure after a few cups of coffee the images will be back to normal. Saturn images are not my responsibility. I take no responsibility for any problems (or fantastic backlit mosaics) that might be associated with Saturn. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist! The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io

Borek View Member Profile	Oct 24 2006, 09:05 PM Post #35
Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: 10-February 05 Member No.: 166	QUOTE (dilo @ Oct 24 2006, 08:46 PM) ...and now look at this: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...4/W00019111.jpg A true example of Cassini modern art...! Oh gosh! There's more cruft in the optics than I thought.

mchan View Member Profile	Oct 25 2006, 05:56 AM Post #36
Member Group: Members Posts: 600 Joined: 26-August 05 Member No.: 476	QUOTE (ugordan @ Oct 13 2006, 12:40 AM) South pole vortex, appears oval: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=85891 http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=85879 http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=85875 http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=85874 http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=85872 Aiiieee!!! The Shoggoths!!!

dilo

Oct 31 2006, 06:10 AM

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New amazing Saturn/rings pictures obtained on Oct,30 with Blu and Violet filters...

Here an examples from wide cam:

(stitch+combo of W019391+92/93+94)

Narrow cam details:

(N68733+32).

(N68741+42)

and atmosphere 3D structures with enhanced local contrast (CB3 filter):

(N68731).

(N00068744)

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ugordan View Member Profile	Oct 31 2006, 06:03 PM Post #38
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3652 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523	Check out the terminator region on top of this image: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=87366 -------------------- www.flickr.com/photos/ugordan

dilo

Oct 31 2006, 08:33 PM

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Good catch, ugordan!
Here below enhanced version, toghether to another nice shot (N068709):

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David View Member Profile	Nov 1 2006, 01:16 AM Post #40
Member Group: Members Posts: 809 Joined: 11-March 04 Member No.: 56	QUOTE (dilo @ Oct 31 2006, 08:33 PM) Good catch, ugordan! Here below enhanced version, toghether to another nice shot (N068709): Are my eyes playing tricks on me, or do some of those clouds have discernible shadows, suggesting that they're projecting a considerable height above a lower cloud layer?

dilo View Member Profile	Nov 1 2006, 07:26 AM Post #41
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150	Absolutely yes, David. Look to this old press release and see also previous post on the argument. -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -

ugordan

Nov 5 2006, 11:22 AM

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Yet Another Crescent Image:

Wide-angle camera RGB composite, W00019472-W00019474

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JRehling View Member Profile	Nov 5 2006, 11:33 AM Post #43
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321	QUOTE (David @ Oct 31 2006, 05:16 PM) Are my eyes playing tricks on me, or do some of those clouds have discernible shadows, suggesting that they're projecting a considerable height above a lower cloud layer? Saturn has a very "deep" atmosphere. The cloud-level gravity is actually only slightly greater than Earth's, and at cloud depths, the temperature is comparable to that of Earth's cloud levels. But Saturn has the lowest molecular weight atmosphere of any in the solar system -- almost pure H2. Simply put, that gives Saturn about 7 times the scale height of Earth, so cloud phenomena get some tremendous vertical stretching.

ugordan

Nov 12 2006, 12:13 PM

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A rather colorful north polar area on Saturn is revealed in these WAC RGB composites. The unlit rings are too dim to be visible here without severe compression artifacts.