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September 20th Titan images |
Sep 22 2008, 04:26 PM
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
Kraken Mare should be near the extreme right of this image. I've been staring at it pretty hard but can't be sure I'm seeing anything. Can anybody find a way to pull the lake out of these latest images?
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...4/N00120245.jpg |
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Sep 22 2008, 05:00 PM
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
Oh baby! The equatorial section in the image is the part of Titan I've been really waiting to see! Lookit all them complex cool-o shapes! -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Sep 22 2008, 05:03 PM
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
Meh, we've seen this area before at higher resolution last year
I'll be looking for Kraken Mare in a bit, I'll let you know if I find it. Keep in mind that it is pretty close to the terminator AND the limb up there, so it may not be visible in those compressed, 8-bit jpegs. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Sep 22 2008, 05:32 PM
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3652 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
This is the most I can get out of the terminator region:
It holds promise for the original raw data. -------------------- |
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Sep 22 2008, 09:13 PM
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
Thanks Gordan. I think I can make a couple of dubious identifications of the shoreline there but too uncertain to be worth noting. I look forward to the professional version VP.
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Sep 25 2008, 07:21 PM
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Newbie ![]() Group: Members Posts: 18 Joined: 1-July 05 Member No.: 425 |
crypto defogged & reweighted N00120245 + Closeup:
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd78/al...dball3small.jpg |
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Sep 25 2008, 07:32 PM
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
crypto defogged & reweighted N00120245 + Closeup: http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd78/al...dball3small.jpg That dark region to the north still looks like it's darker than it should be. Odd. -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Sep 26 2008, 09:25 AM
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
The simulated view in 'looking ahead' shows that the follow-up images from 21st September are from a better angle for lake viewing. Not yet on the raw image page last time I looked, but I'm keeping fingers crossed.
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Sep 30 2008, 09:53 AM
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
Gordan, now we have the images from 21-22 September with the lake showing clearly would there be any chance of a commparison image to set beside your last one in post 4? I want to try viewing both as 3D and see if Kraken Mare matches any faint features on the 20 September view.
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Sep 30 2008, 10:49 AM
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3652 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
There'd be no use in 3D as the moon rotates in addition to the phase angle changing. I forgot the exact procedure I used on the Sep 20th images so can't repeat it, but here's a (better IMO) shot at the Sep 22th images:
September 25, very low phase: -------------------- |
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Sep 30 2008, 11:34 AM
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
Nice - thanks. It's clear from the 20/22 comparison that the two rightmost extremities of Kraken Mare are (just) discernible in the earlier view. You'd be surprised at what I try to do cross-eye 3D with sometimes
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Oct 1 2008, 10:25 PM
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3652 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
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Oct 1 2008, 10:52 PM
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
I had just about given up hope for seeing clouds, but there they are. These seem to be in the same 56 deg. North range as other streak clouds seen in the north.
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Oct 1 2008, 11:54 PM
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![]() Interplanetary Dumpster Diver ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 4408 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Ugordan, excellent work. What might be neat is to merge these images with color images (in other words, color data from true or close to true color imaging with a grayscale that is a mix of these processed images and the grayscale data from the color image. It wouldn't be "true," but it would give it a Titan-ish feel).
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Oct 2 2008, 09:07 AM
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
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