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Iapetus Encounter In January
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post Nov 29 2004, 04:38 PM
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I heard about a peak on Iapetus that may be taller than Olympus Mons on Mars. I was wondering if the RADAR instrument will be used in the January encounter to verify this. What is the maximum distance the RADAR can be used?
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- pioneer   Iapetus Encounter In January   Nov 29 2004, 04:38 PM
- - AlexBlackwell   Cassini Caps off 2004 With Flyby of Icy Moon Iapet...   Dec 31 2004, 01:53 AM
- - alan   I've noticed some interesting features near th...   Dec 31 2004, 04:26 AM
- - alan   If you look just at the rims of the craters the da...   Dec 31 2004, 05:37 AM
- - alan   Anyone else see a huge impact basin here? Or am I...   Dec 31 2004, 07:08 AM
- - Decepticon   If it is, that is 1 HUGE Impact.   Dec 31 2004, 05:20 PM
- - alan   I'm having some doubts about it now. I don...   Dec 31 2004, 07:49 PM
- - volcanopele   First set of Iapetus images are down. That is a H...   Dec 31 2004, 07:58 PM
- - volcanopele   QUOTE (alan @ Dec 31 2004, 12:49 PM)I'm h...   Dec 31 2004, 08:03 PM
- - volcanopele   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Dec 31 2004, 12:58 PM)Fi...   Dec 31 2004, 08:07 PM
- - volcanopele   Bright-dark dichonomy: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov...   Dec 31 2004, 08:09 PM
- - Decepticon   OMG I'm in shock! Amazing!   Dec 31 2004, 08:36 PM
- - Decepticon   My first try at stiching. What you think?!   Dec 31 2004, 08:51 PM
- - Decepticon   A colour try. Remember I'm new at this...   Dec 31 2004, 08:56 PM
- - alan   Decepticon, part of the dark area is gray rather t...   Dec 31 2004, 09:26 PM
- - djellison   I love it when PTGui says the control points are ...   Dec 31 2004, 09:30 PM
- - alan   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Dec 31 2004, 08:03 PM)QU...   Dec 31 2004, 09:37 PM
- - alan   Dark material looks like dust to me. Is it just m...   Dec 31 2004, 09:48 PM
- - Decepticon   QUOTE (alan @ Dec 31 2004, 04:26 PM)Deceptico...   Dec 31 2004, 10:15 PM
- - Sunspot   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Dec 31 2004, 08:07 PM)QU...   Dec 31 2004, 10:23 PM
- - alan   I was thinking looks like wind blown streaks must ...   Dec 31 2004, 10:45 PM
- - djellison   QUOTE (alan @ Dec 31 2004, 10:45 PM)I was thi...   Dec 31 2004, 11:36 PM
- - alan   Another theory:1)Iapetus had a subsurface ocean li...   Jan 1 2005, 02:51 AM
- - BruceMoomaw   Alan is thinking along lines roughly similar to mi...   Jan 1 2005, 06:53 AM
- - alan   What would happen to liquid (water, methane, ammon...   Jan 1 2005, 07:27 AM
- - alan   I looked at the images from the 27th again. What ...   Jan 1 2005, 07:30 AM
- - BruceMoomaw   "What would happen to liquid (water, methane,...   Jan 1 2005, 08:54 AM
- - centsworth_II   QUOTE pyroclastic flow? (cryoclastic?) Yeah, I th...   Jan 1 2005, 02:37 PM
- - alan   The ridge may have formed as the last remnants of ...   Jan 1 2005, 04:27 PM
- - SFJCody   The second batch is here   Jan 1 2005, 04:46 PM
- - Decepticon   ^ Oddly I don't see them?! Link?   Jan 1 2005, 05:21 PM
- - Bjorn Jonsson   You need to do a Ctrl-Refresh if using IE. Oddly,...   Jan 1 2005, 05:25 PM
- - Decepticon   Thanks! The might side Images are amazing...   Jan 1 2005, 05:30 PM
- - alan   Wow, I see five craters in the graylight images wh...   Jan 1 2005, 05:34 PM
- - alan   Look at those star trails. Excellent job tracking ...   Jan 1 2005, 05:43 PM
- - alan   And another mountain at the edge of the dark terra...   Jan 1 2005, 05:57 PM
- - Bjorn Jonsson   QUOTE (Decepticon @ Jan 1 2005, 05:30 PM)Bjor...   Jan 1 2005, 06:43 PM
- - DEChengst   A very quick-and-dirty Iapetus mosaic: http://par...   Jan 1 2005, 07:33 PM
- - Decepticon   Looks nice! I've been trying to do that al...   Jan 1 2005, 07:37 PM
- - alan   Every time I look at the dark side of Iapetus it g...   Jan 1 2005, 08:59 PM
- - alan   Some the collaped areas have deposits of dark mate...   Jan 1 2005, 09:02 PM
- - alan   I see lots of sunken areas, uplifted areas, fractu...   Jan 1 2005, 09:35 PM
- - alan   color images http://www.planetary.org/news/2005/c...   Jan 1 2005, 09:45 PM
- - tedstryk   Maybe this is superficial, but Iapetus is starting...   Jan 1 2005, 10:08 PM
- - alan   I see some color variations in the large vrater on...   Jan 1 2005, 10:21 PM
- - alan   Some of the small craters in the light material on...   Jan 1 2005, 10:55 PM
- - alan   QUOTE (alan @ Jan 1 2005, 09:02 PM)Some the c...   Jan 2 2005, 01:11 AM
- - volcanopele   I am favoring an endogenic process right now. I h...   Jan 2 2005, 02:49 AM
- - Decepticon   I wonder how tall that Crater wall is. http://sat...   Jan 2 2005, 05:32 AM
- - alan   I found a diffuse patch in the nightside images. ...   Jan 2 2005, 06:05 AM
- - alan   I may have posted this before. It describes ice vo...   Jan 2 2005, 06:51 AM
- - alan   I think I have a way to darken material on the sid...   Jan 2 2005, 08:11 AM
- - DEChengst   Redid the first mosaic and made a new one: http:/...   Jan 2 2005, 01:58 PM
- - alan   I read that Titans orbits is near the edge of Satu...   Jan 2 2005, 04:08 PM
- - BruceMoomaw   Alan's latst theory, alas, will not work at al...   Jan 2 2005, 04:23 PM
- - alan   Bruce, I was using the varied exposure to sun ligh...   Jan 2 2005, 04:54 PM
- - alan   Something I just thought about, if orbiting throug...   Jan 2 2005, 05:26 PM
- - Decepticon   Made this using alans great stich job and Bjorn La...   Jan 2 2005, 06:25 PM
- - alan   Looks like the guy who posts the raw images has su...   Jan 3 2005, 01:11 AM
- - alan   I zoomed one of the images of the leading side to ...   Jan 3 2005, 01:48 AM
- - BruceMoomaw   Michael E. Adams of the Jupiter List has stitched ...   Jan 3 2005, 02:22 AM
- - alan   I thought this crater looked strange. Seemed too u...   Jan 3 2005, 02:34 AM
- - alan   QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Jan 3 2005, 02:22 AM)Unf...   Jan 3 2005, 02:38 AM
- - alan   Never mind about the geyser/volcanos I got confuse...   Jan 3 2005, 02:52 AM
- - BruceMoomaw   It's rather easy to do that with this particul...   Jan 3 2005, 05:10 AM
- - alan   Was this area melted? Looks kind of fishy to me   Jan 3 2005, 06:33 AM
- - alan   QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Jan 3 2005, 02:22 AM)Wha...   Jan 3 2005, 06:50 AM
- - ilbasso   With Michael Adams' new stitch, turned in a di...   Jan 3 2005, 05:53 PM
- - David   QUOTE I find myself wondering if the dark stuff wa...   Jan 3 2005, 06:59 PM
- - Decepticon   More images have come up... Some Great night sid...   Jan 4 2005, 12:40 AM
- - tedstryk   Here is a mosaic of the new crescent imagery. Thi...   Jan 4 2005, 02:18 AM
- - alan   Give this a try: increase the brightness on one of...   Jan 4 2005, 03:19 AM
- - Decepticon   ^ I tried but don't see it alan. Got a exampl...   Jan 4 2005, 06:24 AM
- - alan   Try it with this one http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mu...   Jan 4 2005, 07:24 AM
- - alan   Somethings weird is going on here   Jan 4 2005, 08:40 AM
- - chris   Alan, I'm a newbie here. What exactly is wei...   Jan 4 2005, 12:08 PM
- - volcanopele   QUOTE (chris @ Jan 4 2005, 05:08 AM)Alan, I...   Jan 4 2005, 05:05 PM
- - alan   Its not just the "wind streaks" the crat...   Jan 4 2005, 05:21 PM
- - volcanopele   A couple of notes: 1) RADAR detected Iapetus. Ac...   Jan 4 2005, 07:54 PM
- - alan   QUOTE (David @ Jan 3 2005, 06:59 PM)I was loo...   Jan 4 2005, 09:35 PM
- - Decepticon   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Jan 4 2005, 02:54 PM)A c...   Jan 5 2005, 03:53 AM
- - alan   I think the outer rim of the largest impact basin ...   Jan 5 2005, 04:34 AM
- - alan   What would happen if methane calthrate was erupted...   Jan 5 2005, 06:23 AM
- - alan   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Jan 4 2005, 07:54 PM)The...   Jan 6 2005, 05:14 AM
- - alan   A mosiac of sunlit cresent and the night side was ...   Jan 6 2005, 05:46 PM
- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (alan @ Jan 6 2005, 05:14 AM)QUOTE (vol...   Jan 7 2005, 07:27 PM
- - tedstryk   I don't mean to be rude, but the new release h...   Jan 7 2005, 09:04 PM
- - volcanopele   QUOTE (tedstryk @ Jan 7 2005, 02:04 PM)I don...   Jan 7 2005, 09:16 PM
- - volcanopele   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Jan 7 2005, 02:16 PM)QUO...   Jan 7 2005, 09:22 PM
- - tedstryk   I didn't mean to offend anyone. I just couldn...   Jan 7 2005, 09:25 PM
- - volcanopele   One complaint I have is the way the unsharp mask w...   Jan 7 2005, 09:47 PM
- - Decepticon   Please tell me that JPL will use exposure times im...   Jan 8 2005, 05:22 AM
- - tedstryk   What do you mean by that? Are you referring to th...   Jan 8 2005, 05:33 AM
- - Decepticon   QUOTE Are you referring to the images taken of the...   Jan 8 2005, 01:45 PM
- - tedstryk   In addition to being more difficult because of spa...   Jan 8 2005, 02:08 PM
- - Decepticon   You would think this info would come out before ea...   Jan 8 2005, 07:50 PM
- - tedstryk   VIMS and CIRS data for Iapetus has been released. ...   Jan 10 2005, 11:57 PM
- - volcanopele   QUOTE (tedstryk @ Jan 10 2005, 04:57 PM)VIMS ...   Jan 11 2005, 12:41 AM
- - alan   I find it interesting that the CO2 peaks at mid la...   Jan 11 2005, 03:46 AM
- - scalbers   I noticed Ted Stryk's excellent 12/2004 image ...   Oct 11 2007, 03:37 PM
- - ugordan   The images you probably want were taken on 2004-12...   Oct 11 2007, 04:30 PM
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