[X] My Assistant

[angel1801]

There will be a chance to image new unseen territory on Rhea (centered at 25N, 300W) at a distance of 164,000km on August 17 at 8:00UTC. It will be a good chance to view the dione like ridges at about 1km/pxl.

[MarcF]

Hi Steve,

Here is an old partial Cassini picture of Dione taken on December 2004 and being part of the "Amata mosaic".
It's localized north of the classical mosaic which can be found everywhere.
It seems not to appear in your Dione map, but may be it's not usable since it covers only a very small region, and it has a bad viewing angle.

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...6/N00026465.jpg

I really like your maps.
I'm just frustrated that no new feature names will be assigned soon (IAU seems to have "more important" topics to discuss !!!).
Thanks for sharing your work on the net.
Marc.

[volcanopele]

(IAU seems to have "more important" topics to discuss !!!).

That's not it at all. It takes a while to create base maps from which to chose what features need naming, suggested names, and get those names provisionally approved. The group working on Dione nomenclature also has to deal with Enceladus, Mimas, Tethys, Rhea, Hyperion (though that one will have to wait, I think), and Iapetus nomenclature. Not a small task!

[tedstryk]

That's not it at all. It takes a while to create base maps from which to chose what features need naming, suggested names, and get those names provisionally approved. The group working on Dione nomenclature also has to deal with Enceladus, Mimas, Tethys, Rhea, Hyperion (though that one will have to wait, I think), and Iapetus nomenclature. Not a small task!

I could get it done much more quickly if they would leave it up to me.... Ted Stryk's Crater on Dione 1, Ted Stryk's Crater on Dione 2 .... Ted Stryk's Crater on Dione 14,294..... Ted Stryk's Geyser on Enceladus 1, etc. Don't worry Volcanopele, I'll find you a secondary crater somewhere on Mimas.